Cover -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Series Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Looking to the Past to Understand the Present -- 2. Let's Talk about Social Power -- 3. Harnessing Power in Late Nineteenth-Century-Early-Twentieth-Century 'Gig Economy' -- 4. Understanding and Using Levers of Power in the Latter Half of the Twentieth Century -- 5. Structural Change and the Weakening of the Power of Workers -- 6. Union Responses to Decline and Loss of Power -- 7. Organisigin in Theory: Recruitment in Practice? -- 8. Leadership, Strategic Choice and Union Power in the Turn to Organising
9. Winning Power is Possible -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary
An authoritative overview of the question of power in trade union strategy
