This volume comprises thirteen fine-grained case studies of recent campaigns by worker centers and unions to organize the new "precariat" class of workers and to address the crisis facing the labor movement, each of which is based on original research and participant observation.

Changing to organize: a national assessment of union strategies / Kate Bronfenbrenner and Robert Hickey -- Union democracy and successful campaigns: the dynamics of staff authority and worker participation in an organizing union / Teresa Sharpe -- Workers against unions: union organizing and...