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List of issues Vol 28, #4 Vol 28, #3 Vol 28, #2 Vol 28, #1 Vol 27, #4 Vol 27, #3 Vol 27, #2 Vol 27, #1 Vol 26, #4 Vol 26, #3 Vol 26, #2 Vol 26, #1 Vol 25, #4 Vol 25, #3 Back Issues (Current - Spring 2004) Back Issues Index Current issue Back Issues (Spring 2004 - Fall 2000) Volume 28, No. 4 Winter 2004 Contents Article   Outflanking Power, Reframing Unionism: the Basic Strike of 1999-2001 Abstract: How is it possible for workers and their unions to effectively challenge the overwhelming power of employers? The 1999-2001 Basic Vegetable strike by 750 mostly Mexican immigrant members of Teamsters Local 890 in King City, California, achieved surprising success against the archconservative owners of Basic Vegetable Products and the giant ConAgra Corporation. This account elaborates Offe and Weisenthal's model of labor movement revival, relying on concepts from social movement theory, organizational analysis, and the sociology of power, to explain the Basic strikers' success in highly unfavorable economic and legal circumstances. This study observes the convergence in this workforce of movements for race and gender justice, workplace and immigrants rights, and union reform. It emphasizes the significance of organizational change driven by these social movements in equipping the union for success. It focuses on four methods employed by the Basic strikers for "out-flanking power" that are labeled (1) reframing meanings, (2) changing the rules, (3) constitutional practices, and (4) changes in basic structures of control. Paul Johnston Deja Vu All Over Again: The "New Economy in Historical Perspective" Abstract: The American public has been bombarded with the idea that the introduction of information technology created a "New Economy" in the U.S. in the 1990's. It is claimed that "free-market" institutional changes are required to take advantage of the new information technologies, and that combining those institutional changes with the new technology has ushered in a new era of unprecedented prosperity. We take issue with those claims in this paper. Our central thesis is that the institutional changes associated with the New Economy are a veiled attach on trade unions and working people. These changes are not new, they are not required by the new technology, and they have not led to unprecedented prosperity. Moreover, the free market has not brought prosperity in the past, either. During periods in which the free market has predominated, the U.S. economy has performed relatively poorly and exhibited considerable instability. Throughout U.S. history, free-market, anti-labor regimes have alternated with periods in which government and workers have restrained the worst excess of the free market and established basic rights and protections. Viewed in historical perspective, the institutional structure of the new Economy may well turn out to be a relatively temporary phenomenon. David M. Kotz and Martin H. Wolfson Yeshiva and Faculty Unionization in Higher Education Abstract: It has been over two decades since the United States Supreme Court handed down the landmark Yeshiva decision. In that case, the faculty in a private university was determined to be "managerial" and not entitled to collective bargaining rights and other protections under federal labor law. Despite Yeshiva's broad and significant impact in deterring faculty organizing at private colleges and universities, successful union organizing drives, though few, have been growing more frequent on campuses across the United States. In this paper, we examine the Yeshiva case analyze its implications for private and public universities, including current trends such as the increased use of contingent faculty and distance learning. We also examine successful organizing efforts and discuss their implications for organized labor. Robert H. Metchick and Parbudyal Singh Negotiating and Teaching Workplace Drug Testing: A Labor Perspective Abstract: Workplace drug testing policy as an issue for collective bargaining is discussed from a union perspective. A framework of union values is recommended to guide labor's negotiations. Exhibits offer a pre-negotiations checklist, sample questions for employers on proposed drug testing policy, and a letter to union members to educate them about workplace drug testing. Labor educators are encouraged to assist unions by teaching classes on workplace drug testing. The study presents a list of potential class topics and gives anecdotal observations about unionists' responses to this teaching topic. Clara Olesno Book Reviews Strangers at the Gates: New Immigrants in Urban America Edited by Roger Waldinger Reviewed by Juliana Barbassa Labor Pains: Inside America's New Union Movement. By Susan Erem Reviewed by Margaret Butler Teaching for Change: Popular Education and the Labor Movement. Edited by Linda Delp Reviewed by Barbara Byrd The Color of Work. By Timothy J. Minchin Reviewed by Joan G. Hill Politics of Whiteness, Race, Workers, and Culture in the Modern South. By Michelle Brattain Reviewed by Grainger Ledbetter Culture of Misfortune: An Interpretive History of Textile Unionism in the United States. By Clete Daniel Reviewed by Grainger Ledbetter Raise the Floor: Wages and Policies That Work for All of Us. By Holly Sklar, Laryssa Mykta, and Susan Wefald Reviewed by Stephanie Luce Building Unions: Past, Present and Future. By Peter Kellman Reviewed by Elissa McBride Building More Effective Unions. By Paul F. Clark Reviewed by Elissa McBride The Future of the American Labor Movement. By Hoyt N. Wheeler Reviewed by Bruce Nissen From Blackjacks to Briefcases: A History of Commercialized Strikebreaking and Unionbusting in the United States. By Robert Michael Smith Reviewed by Corliss Olson From the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend: A Short, Illustrated History of Labor in the United States. By Priscilla Murolo and A. B. Chitty Reviewed by Ross K. Rieder Unions and Learning in a Global Economy: International and Comparative Perspectives. Edited by Bruce Spencer Reviewed by Donald Spatz The Grit Beneath the Glitter - Tales from the Real Las Vegas. Edited by Hal K. Rothman and Mike Davis Reviewed by Pam Tau Lee To Order Back to top Volume 28, No. 3 Fall 2003 Contents Article   Labor's Youth Brigade: What Can the Organizing Institute and Its Graduates tell us About the Future of Organized Labor? Abstract: This paper utilizes archival research, in-depth interviews and participant observation to analyze the founding and organizational history of the AFL-CIO Organizing Institute. The author argues that the particular way in which the institution was founded, the conflicting goals and mission of its early supporters, and generational and ideological clashes between Institute graduates and the larger labor movement have created conflict and, in some cases, undermined the Institute's founding goals. Additionally, the unresolved nature of these debates-as well as the larger debate regarding commitment to organizing among Institute affiliates and the AFL-CIO-may undercut organizer success in the field and contribute to a higher level of turnover among Institute graduates. Amy Foerster The Cowboy Mentality: Organizers and Occupational Commitment in the New Labor Movement Abstract: This paper details the experiences of union organizers in Sweeney's "new labor movement." It examines the occupational demands that organizers must contend with, such as extensive travel, long hours and emotionally demanding work. The author then describes the occupational culture of organizing, otherwise known as "the cowboy mentality." Far from a centrally coordinated retention strategy, the cowboy mentality is a set of assumption about organizing being more than a job, being superior to other forms of work in labor movement, and being best experienced with an intensity resembling a military boot camp. The author then demonstrates how the cowboy mentality paradoxically strengthens the occupational commitment of some organizers, while alienating and excluding others. Interviews with organizers reveal that women and people of color are most likely to be alienated by the cowboy mentality, thus undermining new labor's efforts to diversify the movements. Daisy Rooks Helping New Organizers Survive and Thrive in the Field: The Essential Role of Training and Mentoring Abstract: The labor movement's attempt to reinvigorate its organizing program has resulted in the recruitment of hundreds of new organizers. Despite this renewed dedication of resources to organizing; the turnover rate of entry level organizers remains high. This paper examines the organizing training and retention efforts of local unions affiliated with five internationals. Through interviews with organizing directors, lead organizers and new field organizes, we explore the training needs and expectations of new organizers. We relate to their success and retention. We recommend a much higher level of support of new organizers, including ongoing educational opportunities and the establishment of personalized mentoring relationship with experienced staff. Lynn Feekin and Marcus Widenor Article Unions and Family Leave: Early Experience Under the Family and Medical Leave Act Abstract: Using a survey of over 2000 employees, we analyze that extent to which labor unions have facilitated the implementation of the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA). Among hourly workers, union representation does not have a significant effect on FMLA leave-taking frequency, but union members are more likely to have heard of the FMLA, are more likely to have fully-paid leaves, and are less likely to worry about losing their jobs and seniority because of taking leaves. The results also indicate that minority workers could benefit from additional representation. John W. Budd and Angela M. Brey Book Reviews Three Strikes: Miners, Musicians, Salesgirls, and the Fighting Spirit of Labor's Last Century. By Howard Zinn, Dana Frank, and Robin D. G. Kelly Reviewed by Steve Babson Labor's Troubadour. By Joe Glazer Reviewed by Richard Conn Beyond the Bottom Line: The search for Dignity at Work. By Paula M. Rayman Reviewed by Lea Grundy Working in America: A Blueprint for the New Labor Market. By Paul Osterman, Thomas A. Kochan, Richard Locke, and Michael J. Piore   The Last Good Job in America. By Stanley Aronowitz Reviewed by Sara Hinkley Participants Programs in Work Organizations: Past, Present and Scenarios for the Future. By Avaid Bar-Haim Reviewed by John Magney Globalization and Its Discontents. By Joseph E. Stiglitz Reviewed by Bruce Nissen Divided We Stand: American Workers and the Struggle for Black Equality. By Bruce Nelson Reviewed by Corliss Olson The CyberUnion Handbook: Transforming Labor through Computer Technology. Edited by Arthur B. Shostak Reviewed by John L. Revitte The Price of Dissent: Testimonies to Political Repression in America. By Budd Schultz and Ruth Schultz Reviewed by Stephen A. Smith Union Learning: Canadian Labour Education in the Twentieth Century. By Jeffery Taylor   Trade Union Education in Europe. Edited by Jeff Bridgford and John Stirling Reviewed by Bruce Spencer Unions in a Globalized Environment: Changing Borders, Organizational Boundaries, and Social Roles. Edited by Bruce Nissen Reviewed by Lowell Turner Meditation in the Workplace: A Guide for Training, Practice, and Administration. By Rebecca Jane Weinstein Reviewed by Adrienne Valdez To Order Back to Top of Vol. 28 #3 Top of Page Volume 28, No. 2 Summer 2003 Contents Article   Taking on "Big Chicken": The Delmarva Poultry Justice Alliance Abstract: Although efforts to organize workers in the new economy have attracted considerable scholarly and media attention, significant battlegrounds remain in old-economy industries that have successfully resisted union penetration. Unions have been employing new strategies in their attempts to recruit workers in those unorganized sectors. This case study analyzes one such initiative, the Delmarva Poultry Justice Alliance (DPJA), an innovative labor-community coalition that is supporting union organizing in the nations' expanding poultry industry. DPJA's experiences illustrate some of the challenges unions face in entering alliances guided by a community organizing approach and offer significant insights into how enduring labor-community coalitions can be developed. Its experience also illuminates the current debate over the extend to which internal union culture must change in order for organizing to succeed, and suggests how labor-community coalitions can influence union strategy. Robert Bussel Graduate Student Unions: Organizing in a Changed Academic Economy Abstract: The past few years have witnessed a dramatic boom in organizing among academic employees, particularly graduate student teachers. This movement has come in response to trends toward corporatization of higher education over the past twenty years, trends including casualization of teaching staff, commercialization of research, and commodification of instruction. The graduate student movement won an important victory in 2001 when the NLRB recognized the employee status of teaching assistants on private sector campuses. Administrators are now working to undo this precedent and hoping for help from a Bush Labor Board. Graduate student successes have helped spur increased organizing among adjunct instructors and faculty. As we look to the near future, the central question is whether the union movement will be a le to reserve the trends of corporatization that threaten to fundamentally reshape American universities. Gordon Lafer The Development of an Anglo-American Model of Trade Union and Political Party Relations Abstract: In this article we offer an historical and comparative view of trade union and political party relations in the United States and Great Britain. Using our own typology of unions/party linkages, we trace the development of ties between the labor movements and political parties in both countries from the beginning of the 20th century, when both labor movements turned to political action to gain relief from hostile court decisions; through the mid-20th century, when relations were particularly strong; to the present where unions have a favored, but not central, role in party policymaking. Today, the Labour and Democratic parties protect the institutional viability of unions, but often adopt policies corrosive of the unions' aims. We believe the current state-of-affairs is explained by retreat from the Keynesian assumptions that underpinned relations in the mid-20th century and a change in electoral strategy that de-emphasizes class-based alliances. Matthew M. Bodah, Steve Ludlam, and David Coates Innovations Teaching Leadership to Union Women: The Use Of Stories Michelle Kaminski Book Reviews The Shadow Welfare State: Labor, Business and the Politics of Health Care in the United States. By Marie Gottschalk Reviewed by George P.Mason Disposable Domestics: Immigrant Women Workers in the Global Economy. By Grace Chang Reviewed by Linda Delp You Don't Always Get What You Pay For: The Economics of Privatization. By Elliott D. Sclar Reviewed by John L. Revitte Thinking Union: Activism and Education in Canada's Labour Movement. By D"Arcy Martin   Education for Changing Unions. By Bev Burke, Jojo Geronimo, D'Arcy Martin, Barb Thomas, and Carol Wall Reviewed by Joe Berry and Helena Worthen Black Workers Remember: An Oral History of Segregation, Unionism, and the Freedom Struggle. By Michael Keith Honey.   Race and Resistance: African Americans in the 21st Century. Edited by Herb Boyd Reviewed by John Russo The Union Member's Complete Guide: Everything you want-and need-to know about working union. By Michael Mauer Reviewed by Corliss Olson Taking the High Road: Communities Organize for Economic Change. By David Reynolds Reviewed by Bruce Nissen State of the Union: A Century of American Labor. By Nelson Lichtenstein Reviewed by Steven Ashby Labor Relations and Collective Bargaining. By Michael R. Carrell and Christina Heavring Reviewed by David Cormier Dom&nbspsticstica: Immigrant Workers Cleaning and Caring in the Shadow of Affluence. By Pierette Hondagneu-Sotelo Reviewed by Helen Moss The Job Training Charade. By Gordon Lafer Reviewed by Tom Juravich Contesting the New Southern Order: The 1914-1915 Strike at Atlanta's Fulton Mills. By Clifford M. Kuhn Reviewed by Grainger Ledbetter To Order Top of page Back to top of Vol. 28, #2 Volume 28, No. 1 Spring 2003 Contents Book Reviews Article   "I Know What It's Like to Struggle": The working Lives of Young Students in an Urban Community College Abstract: Working youth over the age of 17 are the forgotten workers of 21st century America. To draw attention to this group of workers, we report a study of the work experiences of young (ages 18-25) community college students in Northern California – students who are predominantly working class, immigrant and people of color, and who have long histories of cycling back and forth between work and school. We describe the workplace demands and needs of these working students. And, we call on educators, unionists, policy makers, community, and youth organizers to address and improve the conditions of all wroking youth. Stuart Tannock and Sara Flocks Getting In: The Experience of Minority Graduates of the Building Bridges Project Pre-Apprenticeship Class Abstract: The Chicago-area Building Bridges Project is a coooperative effort involving construction trades unions, churches in minority communities, and the Chicago Interfaith Committee. Goals of the project are to increase awareness of union apprenticeship programs in minority communities, broaden access to those programs, and to organize construction work in these same communities. This study focuses on the experience of graduates of the Building Bridges Project pre-apprenticeship class as they apply to apprenticeship programs. It reports the ongoing negotiations among partners in the project as they identify, explain, and, in some cases, address factors that emerge as barriers to access to those programs. It argues that the key factor in the success of the project is that it is guided by the primary goal of organizing. Helena Worthen and Anthony Haynes Electoral Activities of Southern Local Unions in the 2000 Election Abstract: This paper examines the impact of environmental and organizaitinal characteristics on the electoral mobilization activities of local unions in the 2000 presidential election. Based on a sample of 140 southern local unions, the study finds that, externally, the strength of the labor movement relative to competeing political interests in the state, along with the organizing and political activities of international unions, promotes the electoral activism of local unions. However, both economic inequalities and racial conflicts seem to discourage the electoral activities of local unions. Internally, the development of rank-and-file leadership and internal organizing also supports the electoral activism of local unions. The implications of the results and some directions for future research are discussed. Tracy Chang Not Just Another Labor Party: The Workers' Party and Democracy in Brazil Abstract:: This paper analyzes Brazil's Partido dos Trabalhadores, the Workers' Party (PT), from its origins in social movements to becoming one of the largest political parties in Brazil. The party's trajectory from semi-clandestine meetings during Brazil's military dictatorship (1964-85) to a successful national organization with international linkages is an instructive case-study of how labor parties can contend in democratic politics during the neoliberal era. The party developed an innovative, grassroots structure that has sustained ties with both labor and non-labor movements, community movements, the progressive Catholic Church, and a growing sector of non-governmental organizations in Brazilian civil society. John A. Guidry Learning for Change: Staff Traiing, Leadership Development, and Union Transformation Abstract:: This study reviews recent innovations in three countries – Canada, Great Britain, and the U.S.– toward the provision of education and training for labor's professional staff, officials, and leaders. It highlights the overall approach and several of the initiatives adopted in each country, and then discusses some opportunities and barriers toward the development of this important facet of labor education. It complements recent discussions about the forms and purposes of labor education, in general, and current debates about the revitalization of the labor movement. The study concludes with a call for more systematic discussion of these issues and furthe analysis of different approaches. Tom Nesbit Alternative Strategic Directions for the U.S. Labor Movement: Recent Scholarship Abstract: This article examines the scholarly literature giving advice to U.S. unions on the strategic direction they should pursue. It divides much of the literature into two main schools of thought: "value added" or "mutual gains" unionism (VAU), and "social movement" unionism (SMU). Both schools of thought are explained and evaluated. The two are then compared, using contemporary national and local examples to illustrate each. After comparing their prospects and advantages/disadvantages, the article concludes that SMU has a better likelihood of reviving the U.S. labor movement, although its adoption as dominant practice is far from assured. Bruce Nissen To Order Top of page Back to top of Vol. 28, #1 Volume 27, No. 4 Winter 2002 Contents Book Reviews Interactive Forum   Amplifying the Voices of Workers: An Organizing Model for Labor Communications Fred Glass Communicating in Corporate America's America Sam Pizzigati Organizing Media: Toward a National Labor Communications Strategy Howard Kling Article   The Decline of a Cooperative, Union-Controlled Grievance Procedure: The Case of the Columbus Typographical Union, 1941-1992 Abstract:: Between 1941 and 1992, the Columbus Typographical Union's grievance procedure underwent a change from a cooperative, union-controlled system with peer review as an important core feature, to one that became more adversarial and typical of industrial union procedures. Key factors outside the immediate employment relationship were largely responsible: the industrialization of Columbus, federal labor policy, technological changes, industry restructuring, and general changes in printing industry labor relations practices. Few unions had as much shopfloor power as the typographers: few union members enjoyed more democratic rights in the workplace. Despite this, the union suffered tremendous losses. Thus, for unions, this case study shows that cooperation with management in unstable, changing social environments can be very risky undertaking, sepecially if they do not pay proper atention to the larger environment. Howard Stanger Building Union Power Through the Supply Chain: Mapping Opportunities and Jurisdictional Boundaries in Grocery Distribution Abstract:: The trend towards increasing integration within the grocery supply chain is identified and its implications for trade union organizing explored. While offering greater efficiencies and reduced costs for employers, supply chain integration may also offer unions a new lever for organzing. The article outlines a methodology for mapping union coveage and highlights potential impediments to union organizing such as contracting out and jurisdictional disputes. Unions need to adopt a strategic approach to organizing and the early resolution of jurisdictional conflicts in order to take full advantage of current. changes within the grocery supply chain. John Lund & Christoper Wright The Caterpillar Labor Dispute and the UAW, 1991-1998 Abstract: The United Auto Workers (UAW) and the Caterpillar Corporation (Cat) engaged in one of the longest and most contentious labor disputes of the 1990s. This article analyzes the dispute, shows how the UAW retreated from two major strikes over the course of the decade, how the Cat workers displayed a great deal of militancy during the struggle, how the union fought the legal battle, and how the Cat workers eventually achieved a contract. Isaac Cohen Top of page   Book Reviews Edited by Lynn Feeking Transnational Labor Cooperation Among Labor Unions Edited by Michael Gordon and Lowell Turner Reviewed by Andy Banks Behind the Label: Inequality in the Los Angeles Apparel Industry By Edna Bonacich and Richard P. Appelbaum Voices from the Front Lines: Organzing Immigrant Workers In Los Angeles By Ruth Milkman and Kent Wong Reviewed by Juliana Barbassa The Politics of Faculty Unionization: The Experience of Three New Egland Universities By Gordon B. Arnold The Knowledge Factory: Dismantling the Corporate University and Creating True Higher Learning By Stanley Aronowitz Reviewed by Joe Berry Temps: The Many Faces of the Changing Workforce By Jackie Krasas Rogers Reviewed by Jun Chon After Capitalism: Fropm Managerialism to Workplace Democracy By Seymour Melman Global Capitalism versus Democracy: Socialist Register 1999 Edited by Leo Panitch and Colin Leys Reviewed by A. B. Cochran Central Labor Councils and the Revival of American Unionism: Organizing for Justice in Our Communities Edited by Immanuel Ness and Stuart Eimer Reviewed by Jill Kriesky The Making of NAFTA: How to Deal was Done By Maxwell A. Cameron and Brian W. Tomlin Reviewed by Bruce Nissen Labored Relations: Law, Politics and the NLRB-A Memoir By Williams B. Gould IV Reviewed by Jim Rundle Sweatshops on Wheels: Winners and Lowers in Trucking Deregulation Michael H. Belzer Reviewed by Joseph M. Turrini American Labor Unions in the Electoral Arena By Herbert B. Asher, Eric S. Heberlig, Randall B. Ripley and Karen Snyder Reviewed by Roland Zullo Learning from Saturn: Possibilities for Corporate Governance and Employee Relations By Saul A. Rubinstein and Thomas A. Kochan Reviewed by Diane Thomas-Holladay To Order Top of page Back to top of Vol. 27, #4 Volume 27, No. 3 Fall 2002 Contents Book Reviews Interactive Forum   Bargaining for "Quality" in Higher Education: A Case Study from the City Colleges of Chicago Helena Worthen and Joe Berry Response to Worthen and Berry: Bargaining for Survival in Higher Education John Remington Reply to Worthen and Berry Larry Isaac Article   Local Versus Global: Activating Local Union Power in the Global Economy Abstract:: Globalization alerts the balance of power between unions and employers. In decentralized bargaining regimes, local unions are therefore compelled to reexamine the resources that they can mobilize in their power relationship. This article offers a framework to conceptualize the power resources available to local unions. This strategic triangle for local union renewal includes three typ0es of power resources: productivity or agenda; internal solidarity or democracy; and external solidarity, both with other unions and with the community and other social groups. It is argued that in a global economy, union to develop and mobilize these interdependent power resources in order to achieve positive bargaining and political outcomes. Christian Levesque and Gregor Murray AFL-CIO China Policy: Labor's New Step Forward or the Cold War Revisited? Abstract:: The issues of most favored nation (MFN) status and permanent normal trade relations (PNTR) with China have sparked a great deal of discussion within not only U.S. labor circles, but American society as a whole. The AFL-CIO, as the central voice of U.S. labor, has taken a particularly vehement stand against normalizing trade relations with China based on China's abysmal human rights record. This article is an attempt to examine that stand in relation to the AFL-CIO's history of Cold War, anti-Communist activism, and the nature of free trade as put forth by such international economic entities as the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Trade Organization (WTO), and the World Bank. It is fair for the AFL-CIO's stance against china represent a progressive concern for human rights, or is it a throwback to the Cold War era policies of the Meany/Kirkland years? The following article is a modest attempt to examine these questions. Dean Frutiger Problem Creation and Resolution in Unionized Work-Places: A Review of the Grievance Procedure Abstract: In this paper, grievance filing and handling is placed in the broader context of problem creation and resolution. Management actions lead to problems when the action is severe enough or has a large scope. Worker reaction is based on both a desire and a reason to overturn the action. Problems become grievance when contractual, precedential, or past practice rights apply to the situation. The existence and applicability of rights usually leads to the grievance procedure being used to resolve problems. When rights are unclear, the pursuit of interests lead to another channels being used. There are four problems resolution channels examined: (1) economic power against high-level management, (2) economic power against low-level management, (3) informal negotiations between the union and management, and (4) the grievance procedure. The behaviors that determine which channel is selected for resolution and the outcome of that resolution. David Meyer Top of page   Book Reviews Edited by Lynn Feeking The Moderation Dilemna, by Anya Bernstein The Widening Gap, By Jody Heymann Reviewed by Kirsten Snow Spalding Out at Work: Building a Gay-Labor Alliance Edited by Kitty Krupat and Patrick McCreery Reviewed by Tess Ewing The Triangle Fire By Leon Stein Reviewed by Neill DeClercq Great Labor Quotations Sourcebook and Reader By Peter Boolen Reviewed by Mel Chang Youth at Work: The Unionized Fast-Food and Grocery Workplace By Stuart Tannock Reviewed by Nancy DellaMatera To Order Top of page Back to top of Vol. 27, #3 Volume 27, No. 2 Summer 2002 Content Book Reviews Symposium The top 6 articles make up a "symposium" on two award-winning labor studies books, Battling for American Labor (1999) and Gender and the South China Miracle (1998)   New Directions, Old Approaches: Labor Studies at the Crossroads Heidi Gottfried Whither Labor Studies? Lessons from Two Recent Studies Peter Meiksins In Search of American Labor's Syndicalist Heritage Larry Isaac In Search of Syndicalism Howard Kimeldorf Class and Gender in the Industrial Borderland: Lee's Feminist Theory of Production Politics Karen Shire Revisiting the South China Miracle Ching Kwan Lee Article   Unions and Welfare Reform: Labor's Stake in the Ongoing Struggle over the Welfare State Abstract: Welfare reform has many implications for the labor movement in terms of erosion of public benefits, privatization, mandated employoment in low wage jobs or workfare, and other effects. Labor can address these challenges sthrough several stsrategies including: organizing workfare workers, raising wage standards through living wage campaigns and effective policy advocacy with other progressive organizations, and designing better programs to serve welfare clients. Several examples of labor's involvement in the arena of welfare policy are examined, including workfare organizing, participation in welfare rights coalitions and colaborating with service providers. As Congress considers reauthorization of the Temporary Assistance to Needy Families Program in 2002, labor's perspectives can be extremely valuable in the policy debate. Louise Simmons Innovations   Fostering Critical Thinking about Contemporary Social and Political Issues: A Labor Education Experiment Robert Bussel Top of page   Book Reviews Edited by Lynn Feekin Construction Workers, U.S.A. by Herbert Applebaum Reviewed by Bruce Nissen William Z. Foster and the Tragedy of American Radicalism By James R. Barrett Reviewed by John Hennen The Violence-Prone Workplace: A New Approach to Dealing with Hostile, Threatening, and Uncivil Behavior By Richard V. Denenberg and Mark Braverman Reviewed by Corliss Olson Hard Work: The Making of Labor History By Melvyn Dubofsky Reviewed by John L. Revitte Weaving Work and Motherhood by Anita Ilta Garey Reviewed by Jane Kiser Meatpackers: An Oral History of Black Packinghouse Workers and Their Struggle for Racial and Economic Equality By Rick Halpern and Roger Horowitz Reviewed by Glenn Feldman Testing the New Deal: The General Textile Strike of 1934 in the American South By Janet Irons Reviewed by Stanley Rosebud Rosen Grand Master Workman: Terence Powderly and the Knights of Labor By Craig Phelan Reviewed by Mark Pattison The March Inland: Origins of the ILWU Warehouse Division 1934-1938 By Harvey Schwartz Reviewed by Albert Vetere Lannon Capital Crimes: A Globe-Spanning Account of the Violence of Power and Money – From Street Crime to Corporate Crime by George Winslow Reviewed by Lawrence Parks The Working Class Majority: America's Best Kept Secret by Michael Zweig Reviewed by Robert Bruno To Order Top of page Back to top of Vol. 27, #2 Volume 27, No. 1 Spring 2002 AFL-CIO/UALE Education Conference Issue Building Union Power in a Changing Economy Contents Homecare Worker Organizing in California: An Analysis of a Successful Strategy Abstract This paper examines the challenges facing California homecare workers in their historic struggle to unionize from the 1980s through the 1990s. Three inter-related components were critical to their ultimate success: 1) grassroots organizing, 2) changing policy at the state and county level, and 3) working in coalition with groups of senior and disabled care recipients. Now that the union represents more than 100,000 workers, consolidation of those victories involves challenges such as developing leadership among the new membership and strengthening the labor-consumer coalition that will be critical to further improvements in homecare services and working conditions. This campaign has already had significant impact on the structure of this emerging workforce and will have long-term effects on social policy for care of the elderly and disabled. Linda Delp and Katie Quan An Activist AFSCME Local Confronts Welfare Reform Abstract Public sector welfare caseworkers confront shifts in U.S. welfare policy internally, facing changes in their own workplaces, and externally, in relation to their clients. This paper looks at an activist AFSCME caseworker local in Chicago to see how it responded to these internal and external challenges. It compares the strategies of two campaigns, in terms of their timelines, goals, educational needs, and strategic concerns, including relationships with other parts of the union. The paper then draws lessons about alliances with other organizations, the need for a program of maximum mobilization, and development of strong and educated secondary leadership. Helena Worthen, Steve Edwards and Diane Stokes Corporations Go to Prisons: The Expansion of Corporate Power in the Correctional Industry Abstract Over the last two decades, the U.S. prison population has quadrupled, with some 1.9 million people behind bars in federal and state prisons, and local jails by the year 2000. Corporations are seeking profit-making opportunities from this prison population. In this paper, we examine two major areas through which corporations are capitalizing on prison labor: prison privatization and prison industry. We briefly review key explanations of incarceration, report on the current state of prison privatization and prison industrialization, examine the impact they have on organized labor, and propose union strategies in fighting against the expansion of corporate power in the correctional industry. Tracy F. H. Chang and Douglas E. Thompkins Strategic Contract Campaigns at Multinational Corporations Abstract This paper examines first contract campaigns at five multinational corporations. The case studies include a cross-section of unions and a variety of industries. Several common patterns in the cases highlight important strategic considerations for unions. First, solid organizational structures and rank-and-file activism serve as a prerequisite for sustainable campaigns. Second, strategic considerations of external factors, such as the union's strength in the industry and leverage capacity contribute to successful campaigns. Third, the level of resistance varies widely across employers and strongly affects the campaign. Finally, while the legal framework of bargaining matters, it emerges as a source of last hope against highly resistant employers. Rob Hickey Social Partner or Social Movement? European Integration and Trade Union Renewal in Europe Abstract This paper outlines recent examples of labor movement renewal in Europe in the context of European integration and globalization. It highlights an increasing tension between the strategy of social partnership pursued by official labor organizations and grassroots "social movement unionism." The paper demonstrates that the prospects for successful renewal involves linking workplace mobilization and organization with wider popular struggles to form a movement against the new regionalized forms of corporate and state power. This has direct relevance to current debates in the US concerning the tension between "service" and "organizing" models and demonstrates the need for vibrant autonomous workplace unionism as well as a political dimension to labor movement renewal. Graham Taylor and Andrew Mathers The Role of Labor Education in Transforming a Union Toward Organizing Immigrants: A Case Study Abstract This article looks at a series of educational programs on attitudes toward immigrants conducted for the South Florida Regional Council of the Carpenters Union by the author. It details the content and nature of the programs, the key players, the relationships of the programs to change within the union, internal union sensitivities, and the end results. The case is analyzed to indicate key issues surrounding education of this type: its sensitive nature, the centrality of surfacing normally hidden feelings and opinions, the need for decisive backing from key power centers within the union, the blurring of the difference between "education" and "consulting" in this type of labor education, and several necessities/cautions for this type of labor education to work. Bruce Nissen To Order Top of page Back to top of Vol. 27, #1 Volume 26, No. 4 Winter 2002 Contents Book Reviews Canadian Union Strategies in the Context of Change Abstract Drawing on the results of a national survey of labor organizations in Canada, this paper focuses on the changing environment and strategic orientations of unions. It looks at the strategic dilemma facing Canadian unions on the basis of a reading of their organizational and bargaining priorities and their relative success in achieving them. Key results include the necessity of a strategic mix between traditional and new types of objectives as well as the importance of policy and the democratic dialogue that underpins that policy in achieving union objectives and pursuing union renewal. Pradeep Kumar and Gregor Murray Organizing Unionism and the Possibilities for Perpetuating a Social Movement Role Abstract Based on a nationwide survey of members of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), this paper explores the extent to which the federation remains true to the culture and strategies of "organizing unionism," through the persistence of its past social movement role. It focuses on two specific issues: the federation's relationship with community and political organizations, and the degree to which it is in a position to pursue a "moral project," as well as its capacity to draw in and actively involve those in more vulnerable categories of labor. Geoffrey Wood The Relevance of Critical Postmodernism for Emancipatory Labor Education: An Assessment Abstract Emancipatory labor educators seek to facilitate among workers an understanding of their common experiences of exploitation as well as their collective power to transform workplace and social conditions. Emancipatory educators have thus stressed the need for working class unity, yet there are significant differences and conflicts among workers. Can the goal of promoting unity be reconciled with the recognition of differences? Critical postmodernist theorists believe that their notions of "difference" and "border crossing" can reconcile this tension. However, an analysis of the relevance of these notions in three labor education contexts reveals their limited value for emancipatory labor educators. Michael Slott Employee Involvement in Action: Reviewing Swedish Codetermination Abstract The author explores the proposition that employee involvement through codetermination is likely to be successful for Swedish unions and corporations because the "social partnership" approach of the Swedish system favors it. He discusses the context, history, and law of codetermination of Sweden compared to the National Labor Relations Act and relevant studies. He reviews codetermination practices at Ericsson, SKF Group, Spendrups, LKAB mining, and the newspaper Dagens Industri. He concludes that the corporations studied have benefited substantially from codetermination and that the unions studied have benefited from it when it has been used to address local decisions and conditions. However, he finds that these unions have been much less successful in using codetermination to change corporations' strategic decisions. Jeff Wheeler Book Reviews Edited by Chris Wagoner Striking Steel: Solidarity Remembered By Jack Metzgar Reviewed by Robert Bruno Collective Bargaining for Health and Safety: A Handbook for Unions Edited by Labor Occupational Health Program Reviewed by Neill DeClercq Coalitions Across the Class Divide: Lessons from the Labor, Peace, and Environmental Movements By Fred Rose Reviewed by Mark Pattison Nonunion Employee Representation: History, Contemporary Practice, and Policy Edited by Bruce E. Kaufman and Daphne Gottlieb Taras Reviewed by A. B. Cochran Back to top of Vol. 26, #4 Top of Page Volume 26, No. 3 Fall 2001 Contents Book Reviews Public Project Labor Agreements: Lessons Learned, New Directions Abstract Project labor agreements on public construction projects have been generating considerable controversy since the U.S. Supreme Court's unanimous 1993 "Boston Harbor" decision. Here we review a number of subsequent state and federal court cases, several state laws, proposed legislation, and President Bush's recent executive order on project labor agreements. We also identify and more closely examine several key arguments of the opponents of project labor agreements. We conclude with an outline for building and construction trades unions and councils to utilize in determining whether or not project labor agreements are appropriate on a case-by-case basis. John Lund and Joe Oswald E.T. Weir, Employee Representation, and the Dimensions of Social Control: Weirton Steel, 1933-1937 Abstract This article analyzes early New Deal-era anti-union strategies at Weirton Steel Company, a subsidiary of National Steel Corporation. After a massive Weirton Steel walkout for union recognition in 1933, National Steel chairman Ernest T. Weir moved to preserve his autocratic control. One means he used was the Employee Representation Plan, one of hundreds of such plans formed by steel managers to circumvent the collective-bargaining provisions of the National Industrial Recovery Act. The article addresses the flourishing of rank-and-file militancy at Weirton, the fragmentation of unionization efforts, Weir's successful challenge to the legitimacy of the National Labor Board, and the pattern of coercion that drove the Steelworkers Organizing Committee from Weirton Steel in 1936-37. It concludes that the virtual monopoly of shop-floor and civic power exercised by Weir's corporation, combined with employee skepticism about the organizing committee's efficacy and structure, made accommodation to company prerogatives an understandable course of action for Weirton workers. John Hennen Free-Riding: Trends in Collective-Bargaining Coverage and Union-Membership Levels in New Zealand Abstract Free-riding occurs when non-union members receive the benefits of a union-negotiated collective bargain without contributing to the costs of achieving that bargain, whether by paying union membership dues or an agency fee. In New Zealand, free-riding has been a significant difficulty for unions operating under the Employment Contracts Act 1991. Free-riding had been approximately 16 percent of collective-bargaining coverage under previous employment laws. Free-riding under the Employment Contracts Act represented some 27 percent of collective-bargaining coverage. This paper reviews the nature and extent of the differences between industry free-riding rates and examines the paradigm shifts occurring in the New Zealand industrial relations system. Raymond Harbridge and David Wilkinson Book Reviews Edited by Chris Wagoner back to top of Vol 26 #3   Converging Divergences: Worldwide Changes in Employment Systems By Harry C. Katz and Owen Darbishire Reviewed by David M. Copley What Workers Want By Richard B. Freeman and Joel Rogers Reviewed by Howard Harris. The Common Law of the Workplace: The Views of Arbitrators Edited by Theodore J. St. Antoine Reviewed by Thomas J. Germano The Politics of Immigrant Workers: Labor Activism and Migration in the World Economy Since 1830 Edited by Camille Guerin-Gonzales and Carl Strikwerda Reviewed by Albert Vetere Lannon Industrial Incentives: Competition Among American States and Cities By Peter S. Fisher and Alan H. Peters Reviewed by Bruce Nissen Labouring to Learn: Union Renewal in Swedish Manufacturing By Tony Huzzard Reviewed by Steven Deutsch Void Where Prohibited: Rest Breaks and the Right to Urinate on Company Time By Marc Linder and Ingrid Nygaard Reviewed by Bruce Nissen Class Action: Reading Labor, Theory, and Value By William Corlett Reviewed by Noel Dorman Mawer Pursuing Justice: Lee Pressman, the New Deal, and the CIO By Gilbert J. Gall Reviewed by Joseph M. Turrini Jobs, Technology and People By Nik Chmiel Reviewed by Mark Pattison The World's Strongest Trade Unions: The Scandinavian Labor Movement By Walter Galenson Reviewed by David Reynolds New Rules for a New Economy: Employment and Opportunity in Postindustrial America By Stephen A. Herzenberg, John A. Alic, and Howard Wial Reviewed by Bruce Nissen Pure and Simple Politics: The American Federation of Labor and Political Activism, 1881-1917 By Julie Greene Reviewed by Ken Fones-Wolf Durable Inequality By Charles Tilly Reviewed by Elisabeth Prugl Taking History to Heart: The Power of the Past in Building Social Movements By James Green Reviewed by Bruce Nissen Employment Dispute Resolution and Worker Rights in the Changing Workplace Edited by Adrienne E. Eaton and Jeffrey H. Keefe Reviewed by Albert Vetere Lannon The Future of History: Interviews with David Barsamian By Howard Zinn Reviewed by John L. Revitte Always Bring A Crowd! The Story of Frank Lumpkin, Steelworker By Beatrice Lumpkin Reviewed by Elizabeth Balanoff Hiring the Black Worker: The Racial Integration of the Southern Textile Industry, 1960-1980 By Timothy J. Minchin Reviewed by Glenn Feldman E. W. Scripps and the Business of Newspapers By Gerald J. Baldasty Reviewed by Howard Stanger Back to top of Vol 26 #3 Top of page Volume 26, No. 2 Summer 2001 Contents Book Reviews Audio Visual Shelf Living Wage Campaigns as Social Movements: Experiences from Nine Cities Abstract Ever since Baltimore passed its pioneering law in 1994, a living-wage movement has come to life across the nation. Today, more than 50 municipalities have living-wage ordinances in place &emdash thanks largely to coalitions of unions and community and religious groups. In a recent article in Labor Studies Journal, Bruce Nissen raised the question of the extent to which these campaigns can be considered social movements. For his Miami case Nissen found that, while the living-wage effort achieved much, its accomplishments as a social movement proved more limited. This raises the question of what a living-wage campaign that has greater social-movement characteristics actually looks like. This paper uses the experience of nine notable campaigns to sketch out these social-movement qualities and to explore how and why some campaigns take on more of a social-movement character. David Reynolds Building Union Commitment: The Impact of Parental Attitudes and Participation Abstract We use structural equations to model Barling, Kelloway, and Bremermann's (1991) mediation model of family socialization in a unionized manufacturing setting. Contrary to expectations, our results indicate the relationship between parents' participation in union activities and their children's general union attitude is only partially mediated by parents' general union attitude. In addition, parents' union participation is found to exert a direct influence on their children's union commitment. Implications for labor unions include the restructuring of union activities to include children in order to lay a solid foundation for a future of committed union members. Kim Hester and Jerry Bryan Fuller Jr. Neither a Gem nor a Scam: The Progress of the North American Agreement on Labor Cooperation Abstract The North American Agreement on Labor Cooperation (NAALC) is essentially an intergovernmental labor agreement that attempts to promote high labor standards among member states, in light of free trade, without transgressing their sovereignty. In effect since January 1994, the NAALC has experienced mixed fortunes. In this paper, we analyze the effectiveness of the agreement by focusing on its two main components, viz., the cooperative activities and the "complaint mechanism." We find that although the NAALC's accomplishments are modest, the agreement does have the capacity to advance the struggle for labor rights. Parbudyal Singh and Roy J. Adams Book Reviews Edited by Chris Wagoner back to top of Vol 26 #2 to Audio Visual From Harvard to the Ranks of Labor: Powers Hapgood and the American Working Class By Robert Bussel Reviewed by Alice Hoffman Inventing Ourselves Out of Jobs? America's Debate over Technological Unemployment, 1929-1981. By Amy Sue Bix Reviewed by Michael J. Polzin The Origin of Capitalism By Ellen Meiksins Wood Reviewed by Noel Dorman Mawer State-Making and Labor Movements: France and the United States, 1876-1914 By Gerald Friedman Reviewed by Martin Comack Pity Is Not Enough By Josephine Herbst Reviewed by Noel Dorman Mawer Black Unionism in the Industrial South By Ernest Obadele-Starks Reviewed by Glenn Feldman Panic Rules: Everything You Need to Know about the Global Economy By Robin Hahnel Reviewed by Gus Cochran Yearbook of Labour Statistics, 1998 By the International Labour Office Reviewed by Bruce Nissen The State of Working America, 1998-1999 By Lawrence Mishel, Jared Bernstein and John Schmitt Reviewed by Mark Pattison The American Peasantry: Southern Agricultural Labor and Its Legacy, 1850-1995: A Study in Political Economy By Ronald E. Seavoy Reviewed by Glenn Feldman Proletarians of the North: A History of Mexican Industrial Workers in Detroit and the Midwest, 1917-1933 By Zaragosa Vargas Reviewed by John Hennen Suppression of Salt of the Earth: How Hollywood, Big Labor, and Politicians Blacklisted a Movie in Cold War America By James J. Lorence Reviewed by Albert Vetere Lannon Restructuring the Employment Relationship By Duncan Gallie, Michael White, Yuan Chang and Mark Tomlinson Reviewed by Bruce Nissen Organized Labor and American Politics, 1894-1994: The Labor-Liberal Alliance Edited by Kevin Boyle Reviewed by Elizabeth Fones-Wolf Of Cabbages and Kings County: Agriculture and the Formation of Modern Brooklyn By Marc Linder and Lawrence S. Zacharias Reviewed by Daniel Pope Labor Histories: Class, Politics, and the Working Class Experience Edited by Eric Arnesen, Julie Greene and Bruce Laurie Reviewed by Marcus Widenor Labor and the Wartime State: Labor Relations and Law during World War II By James B. Atleson Reviewed by John L. Revitte Global Productions: Labor in the Making of the 'Information Society' Edited by Gerald Sussman and John A. Lent Reviewed by Arthur B. Shostak Audio-Visual Reference Shelf   Golden Hands, Working Hands Written and directed by Fred Glass Reviewed by Dan Cornford Reviewed by Marty Bennett Back to top of Vol 26 #2 Top of page Volume 26, No. 1 Spring 2001 Contents Special Issue Introduction: Unions in the Global Economy Frank Emspak and Maria-Luz D. Samper NAFTA's Lessons: From Economic Mythology to Current Realities James M. Cypher Labor and Economic Globalization in Estern Europe and Latin America Mark Anner Globalization and the North American Worker David Cormier and Harry Targ Building Union Power in a Global Economy Douglas Meyer Local Union Relations with Immigrants: The Case of South Florida Bruce Nissen and Guillermo Grenier The Social Accountability Contract: Private Monitoring from Los Angeles to the Global Apparel Industry Jill Esbenshade Back to Top Volume 25, No. 4 Winter 2001 Contents Book Reviews Participatory Unionism Many labor scholars, today as in the past, advocate greater participation by members in decision-making as a cure for what ails the labor movement. A review of experience with such participation, however, shows that it has different consequences in different settings, and that it rarely performs as advocates would like. Four historical types of participatory unionism can be distinguished: radical, craft, classic industrial, and comanagement. The first three have had many exemplars and have long since revealed both their advantages and their limitations; the last is the least developed and most related to current management trends, and therefore worth better understanding. Charles Heckscher Response I Why Participation? Lessons from the Past for the Future Peter Rachleff Response II When is Co-Management Participatory? Ken Mericle Building a "Minority Union": The CWA Experience at NCR This article provides a theoretical and legal overview of the issue of "minority unions" or "members only" unions that attempt to represent workers in the absence of a majority status or a legally protected right to engage in collective bargaining. Differences between public and private sectors are noted. The claims of minority union advocates are then compared with the experience of the Communications Workers of America in their effort to construct a minority union at the NCR Corporation. This article concludes with an analysis of the potential value as well as the limitations of this form of organizaiton for unions, including how this approach might be used strategically. Bruce Nissen Improving the Union Outreach Capabilities of Manufacturing Extension Centers This study investigates the effectiveness of structured union outreach activities at manufacturing extension centers. An analysis of interview and survey data from three centers that participated in a labor outreach piplot program indicates that while the program was successful in increasing union leader awareness of the extension services, several structural and political obstacles limiteed its overall effectiveness. Union outreach programs were most successful at centers that engaged in long-term change interventions, integrated labor outreach into their overall operations, had local/regional union support for the program, and subsidized the services offerd to unions. Carol Haddad Labor's Agonizing Struggle: The Victory and Overthrow of Fiji's Labor Government May 17, 1999 was a day of celebration for Fiji's workers and trade unions. The Fiji Labour Party and its coalition partners had won a landslide victory in the general election. The paper examines the Coalition Government's reform efforts over the past year. It looks at the dilemmas faced by the People's Coalition as they attempted to reverse the previous government's rapid economic restructuring involving trade and labor market deregulation and large-scale privatizaiton of public services. Government efforts to strengthen the position of labor and industrial democracy through changes in labor legislation and the restoration of the Tripartite Forum are discussed along with the unions' repsonse to the labor-friendly political environment. It concludes with the horrifying events of May 2000 when a group of armed men stormed the Parliament and declared a new Government and discusses how the country's unions are leading the struggle for a return to democracy. Darryl Snell and Satendra Prasad Book Reviews Edited by Roberta Till-Retz Back to top of Vol. 25 #4 Top of page Workers' Paradox: The Republican Origins of New Deal Labor Policy, 1886-1935 By Ruth O'Brien Reviewed by John Hennen For Labor's Sake: Gains & Pains as Told by 28 Creative Inside Reformers Edited by Arthur B. Shostak Reviewed by Bruce Nissen Gender and the South China Miracle: Two Worlds of Factory Women By Ching Kwan Lee The Sex Factor: The Economic and Social Bases of Prostitution in Southeast Asia Edited by Lin Lean Lim Reviewed by Judy Polumbaum The Business of Employee Empowerment: Democracy and Ideology in the Workplace By Thomas A. Potterfield Reviewed by Robert Bruno Wars of Attrition: Vietnam, the Business Roundtable, and the Decline of Construction Unions by Marc Linder Reviewed by Robert Bruno Ravenswood: The Steelworkers' Victory snd the Revival of American Labor by Tom Juravich and Kate Bronfenbrenner Reviewed by Mark Pattison Why Unions Matter By Michael Yates Reviewed by David Reynolds The Japanes Conspiracy: The Oahu Sugar Strike of 1920 by Masayo Umezawa Duus Reviewed by Albert Vetere Lannon Corporatism or Competition? Labour Contracts, Institutions and Wage Structures in International Comparison By Coen Treulings and Joop Hartog Reviewed by Bruce Nissen Falling From Grace: Downward Mobilty in the Age of Affluence By Katherine S. Newman Reviewed by Mark Pattison Democracy is Power: Rebuilding Unions from the Bottom Up By Martha Gruelle and Mike Parker Reviewed by Robert E. Wages From the Knights of Labor to the New World Order: Essays on Labor and Culture By Paul Buhle The Ideology of the Socialist Party of America, 1901-1917 By Anthony V. Esposito Reviewed by Peter Rachleff Irish Voice and Organized Labor in America: A Biographical Study By L.A. O'Donnell Reviewed by Alice M. Hoffman Jewish Workers in the Modern Diaspora Edited by Nancy Green Reviewed by Stanley Rosen Back to top of Vol 25 #4 Top of Page   Volume 25, No. 3 Fall, 2000 Contents From Union Identity to Union Voting: An Assessment of the 1996 Election Robert Bruno Living Wage Campaigns from a "Social Movement" Perspective: The Miami Case Bruce Nissen Determinants of Certification Election Outcomes in the Service Sector Edwin W. Arnold, Clyde J. Scott, and John E. Gamble Training and Equity Initiatives on the British Columbia Vancouver Island Highway Project: A Model for Large-Scale Construction Projects Marjorie Griffin Cohen and Kate Braid Book Reviews Edited by Roberta Till- Retz Whistleblowing at Work: Tough Choices in Exposing Fraud, Waste, and Abuse on the Job By Terance D. Miethe Reviewed by Shawn Taylor Violence at Work By Duncan Chappel and Vittorio Di Martino Reviewed by Neill DeClercq The Changing Nature of Work Edited by Frank Ackerman, Neva R. Goodwin, Laurie Dougherty, and Kevin Gallagher Reviewed by Albert Vetere Lannon The American Work Ethic and the Changing Work Force: An Historical Perspective By Herbert Applebaum Reviewed by Noel Dorman Mawer New Rules for a New Economy: Employment and Opportunity in Postindustrial America By Stephen A. Herzenberg, John A. Alic, and Howard Wial Reviewed by Bruce Nissen Fighting for Partnership: Labor and Politics in Unified Germany By Lowell Turner Reviewed by Martin Comack Running Steel, Running America: race, Economic Policy and the Decline of Liberalism By Judith Stein Reviewed by Robert A. Bruno The Unions and the Democrats: An Enduring Alliance By Taylor E. Dark Reviewed by Robert Bruno Managing Tomorrow's High-Performance Unions By Thomas A. Hannigan Reviewed by Arthur B. Shostak Spinning for Labour: Trade Unions and the New Media Environment By Paul Manning Reviewed by Stanley Rosebud Rosen Marx's Wage Theory in Historical Perspective. Its Origins, Development, and Interpretation By Kenneth Lapides Reviewed by George Fishman Workers' Control in Latin America, 1930-1979 Edited by Jonathan C. Brown Reviewed by John Hennen Black Lung: Anatomy of a Public Health Disaster By Alan Derickson Reviewed by William G. Whittaker Labor on the March By Edward Levinson Reviewed by Glenn Feldman To top of Vol. 25 #3 Top of Page Copyright © 2002 The United Association for Labor Education. Contact Tess Ewing for more information.