Save Our Unions: Dispatches From A Movement in Distress brings together recent essays and reporting by labor journalist Steve Early. The author illuminates the challenges facing U.S. workers, whether they're trying to democratize their union, win a strike, defend past contract gains, or bargain...

This paper provides a historical overview of the South African trade union movement, followed by a brief discussion of the labour market legislation and institutions formed since 1994. Thereafter, a detailed evaluation of the impact of trade unions, legislation, and institutions on labour market...

Acknowledgements -- Foreword / by John Callow -- Introductory comment / by John Marriott -- Author's preface -- Prologue: Wednesday 11 September 1889 -- Introduction to a forgotten struggle -- Samuel Silver's palace of industry -- Great sacrifice, great barbarism -- A time of hope -- "They want...