Unions and Communities under Siege: American Communities and the Crisis of Organized Labor

List of tables Preface Acknowledgments Part I. Economy and Community: 1. Crisis of organized labor 2. Understanding union growth and decline Part II. Drama of Economic Restructuring: 3. Communities and corporate location strategies 4. Rationing jobs within the union, between communities Part III. Union Performance in Representation Elections: 5. Democracy in the guise of representation elections 6. Organizing strategies in the heartland and the South 7. At the margin of the rules of the game Part IV. Regulating Local Labor-Management Relations: 8. Integrity of the National Labor Relations Board 9. Options for restructuring the US economy Part V. Prospects For Organized Labor: 10. Republicans, democrats, and the southern veto 11. Employment contracts without unions 12. Unions and communities unarmed Appendices Notes Bibliography Indexes.