List of Tables and Figures

Preface

Introduction

Chapter 1: Trade Union Mobilization: Worker Power and Organizational Strategy

Chapter 2: The Unemployed in Historical Perspective: Opportunities and Challenges to Trade Union Power in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century America

Chapter 3: Rising Unemployment and Declining Trade Union Power in Four New York City Labor Markets

Chapter 4: Trade Unions and the Unemployed: From Formal Responses to Crisis Management

Chapter 5: Organized Labor Responds to Rising Unemployment

Chapter 6: Inclusive Labor Issue Coalitions on Unemployment

Chapter 7: Hiring Halls and Workplaces: Trade Union Organizing Strategies and Unemployment Practices

Appendix A: Methodological Notes

Appendix B: Interviews

Appendix C: Roster of Unions Participating in New York Labor Campaign on Unemployment

Appendix D: Local 259 Survey of Unemployed Members

Appendix E: Key Unions Participating in The New York Labor Campaign on Unemployment

Appendix F: Unemployment and Race in New York

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