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From the Editorial Team
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Vital Signs: Organizing to Survive
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The Arithmetic of Decline and Some proposals for Renewal
by Peter Olney
Highliting strategies that have and have not worked. Olney offers suggestions for where we should go from here.
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Blue Collar Blues: The Deunonizaion of Manufacturing
by Jack Metzgar
Manufacturing slowly declines, but unionization in that sector is in a free fall.
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Outside Agitators and other Red Herrings: Getting Past the 'To-Down/Bottom-Up' Debate
By Eve Weinbaum and Gordon Lafer
Which strategy is better: using rank and file organizers or parachuting mobile “professionals”? Neither, say our authors who have the case studies to prove it.
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Salting the Earth: Organizing for the Long Haul
By Carey Dall and Jonathon Cohen
Two “salters” from the San Francisco bike messenger industry sing the virtues of organizing from the inside.
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To Merge Or Not To Merge: Two Views
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When the Sum is No Greater Than its Parts: Union Mergers
By Kim Moody
Over the past ten years disparate unions have merged in the name of efficiency and increased power and strike funds. But the benefits, the author argues, often don’t add up.
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Mergers That Work: The Experience of SEIU
By Bob Kirkman
Union mergers can help us build a stronger labor movement.
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LA Confidential: An Interview with Miguel Contreras, Executive Secretary-Treasurer of the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor
By Kent Wong and Ruth Milkman
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The Politics of Before and After: Labor’s War at Home
By Corey Robin
The “war on terrorism” rescues the right-wing policy agenda. How should labor flex its political muscle?
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A Race Between Cynicism and Hope: Labor and Academia
By Nelson Lichtenstein
Can the labor movement build a counter-culture to the free market?
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Life Support: Coalition Building and the Living Wage Movement
By Stephanie Luce
With a few notable exceptions, labor has enthusiastically joined the living wage coalition. What kind of benefits are unions reaping?
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Books and the Arts
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The Rackets
By Thomas Kelly
Reviewed by Stephen O’Connor
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Shadow Welfare State: Labor, Business, and the Politics of Health Care in the United States
By Marie Gottshalk
Reviewed By Sumner Rosen
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Working Capital: The Power of Labor’s Pensions
Edited by Archon Fung, Tessa Hebb and Joel Rogers
Reviewed by Jill Andresky
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Factories in the Field: The Story of Migratory Labor in California
By Carey McWilliams
Reviewed by Daniel Geary
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Poetry
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Letters
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