Shifting Fortunes: The Rise and Decline of American Labor, from 1820s to the Present

The author looks to three factors to explain labor's record: the role of the autonomous worker, the threat of employer reprisals, and the influence of external forces such as government policy. His chief concern is to describe and document the historical experience, especially the erratically rising level of union membership from the close of the nineteenth century to the 1960s, and the reversal of that phenomenon in recent decades.  Soft cover, 192 pages