CHAPTER EIGHT. Overcoming Obstacles to Transformation

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. INTRODUCTION Revival of the American Labor Movement 1
5. PART I Reinventing the Labor Movement
6. CHAPTER ONE. Building Social Movement Unionism 9
7. CHAPTER TWO. Organize for What? 27
8. CHAPTER THREE. Living with Flexibility 59
9. CHAPTER FOUR. Lost Ways of Unionism 82
10. PART II Organizing Upsurge: Strategic and Structural Innovation
11. CHAPTER FIVE. Organizing Immigrant Workers 99
12. CHAPTER SIX. Structural Change in the AFL-CIO 129
13. CHAPTER SEVEN. Confronting the Dilemmas of Organizing 155
14. CHAPTER EIGHT. Overcoming Obstacles to Transformation 182
15. PART III New Strategic and Institutional Orientations
16. CHAPTER NINE. The Evolution of Strategic and Coordinated Bargaining Campaigns in the 1990s 211
17. CHAPTER TEN. Union Mergers and Union Revival 238
18. CHAPTER ELEVEN. Building the High Road in Metro Areas 256
19. PART IV Politics and Policy
20. CHAPTER TWELVE. Organized Labor versus Globalization 275
21. CHAPTER THIRTEEN. Free Trade, Fair Trade, and the Battle for Labor Rights 314
22. AFTERWORD Whither the American Labor Movement? 339
23. References 351
24. Biographies 375
25. Index 381