Why organize? -- Labor revival: what would it take? -- The New Deal system: employer offensive, labor response -- Gender styles and union issues -- New tactics, community, and color -- Neoliberal globalization -- Code of conduct and living wage campaigns -- A new upsurge?

"This book examines the multifaceted dimensions that make up the American communist movement from its early years in the 1920s to its peak in the years leading up to World War II. The author's approach differentiates between the political-, social-, and labor-oriented motivations taken by the...

"Communists and Community chronicles labor activism and community organizing sponsored by the Communist Party in Detroit from 1942 to 1956, to investigate the changing nature of community-based activism in the twentieth century."

Analyzing the 2010 elections -- Summary history of the Wisconsin uprising -- The source of collective effervescence: conceptual foundations -- Totally alive: effervescence in the Wisconsin uprising -- Internal order and youth authority in the Wisconsin uprising -- The information station --...

Preface: The continuing relevance of progressive student activism in an age of right-wing populism -- Theorizing social movement strategy -- Globalization, the apparel industry and the roots of sweatshops -- Higher education as a political opportunity structure -- The origins of United Students...