In a fresh and timely reinterpretation, Nelson Lichtenstein examines how trade unionism has waxed and waned in the nation's political and moral imagination, amo

From steel workers, Teamsters, and coal miners to teachers, actors, and civil servants, union members once accounted for more than one third of the American wor

This 1985 book offers a critical examination of the impact of the National Labor Relations Act on American unions. Dr Tomlins examines both the laws from the la

The collapse of Britain's powerful labor movement in the last quarter century has been one of the most significant and astonishing stories in recent political h

The authors examine the reluctance of Americans to join unions, even though they greatly approve of the institution, comparing the experience of Canada, where u