Rekindling the Movement

Experts from a wide variety of disciplines—industrial relations, political science, economics, and sociology—identify the central developments, analyze the strengths and weaknesses of the new pro-labor initiatives.

Lowell Turner, Harry Katz, and Richard Hurd are Professors in the New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University. Turner's many books include Fighting for Partnership and Democracy at Work, both from Cornell. Harry C. Katz is Dean of the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University, where he is Jack Sheinkman Professor of Collective Bargaining. He is the author of several books and the editor of Telecommunications: Restructuring Work and Employment Relations Worldwide, also from Cornell. Hurd is Director of the Labor Studies Program and coeditor of two books from Cornell, including Organizing to Win.

This is a brilliant follow-up to the 1998 anthology, Organizing to Win... With essays by writers from diverse disciplines, this book is essential for both labor and business leaders who are challenged to understand and accommodate the needs of a rapidly changing and diverse workforce.

Kevin Mattson:

The writers included in Rekindling the Movement expound on the newer strategies Lichtenstein favors.... There's much that Lichtenstein and the authors of Rekindling the Movement discuss that provides hope.

Greg McElligott, McMaster University:

Anyone concerned about the state of the American labour movement is likely to find reason for both hope and despair in this volume.... The editors of Rekindling the Movement have captured both tendencies in a comprehensive selection of articles, and consequently they present a mixed but probably fair reading of US labour's current prospects.... Rekindling the Movement will undoubtedly be an important and useful tool for organizers and those who study them. It should help rekindle the imagination as well.