Illuminates key connections between the social justice movements of the last fifty years and today's most innovative labor organizing.

Includes separately paged "Junior union section."

This book recounts the historic struggles of the American labor movement for safer workplaces, for a healthier environment, for corporate accountability, for equal rights for the majority who are women, and for civil rights for the minority who are not white.

First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

"A Manhattan Institute for Policy Research book."Includes index. Bibliography: p. 276-301.