Changing to organize: a national assessment of union strategies / Kate Bronfenbrenner and Robert Hickey -- Union democracy and successful campaigns: the dynamics of staff authority and worker participation in an organizing union / Teresa Sharpe -- Workers against unions: union organizing and...

American historians tend to believe that labor activism was moribund in the years between the First World War and the New Deal. Jon Huibregtse challenges this perspective in his examination of the railroad unions of the time, arguing that not only were they active, but that they made a big...

Responsibilities of the labor historian -- The future of the labor movement in historical perspective -- Labor's institutional sources of expansion and contraction -- Section 8a(2) and the origins of the Wagner act -- World War I and industrial democracy; or, why we have no works councils in...