Table of Contents

*FrontMatter, pg. i*CONTENTS, pg. vii*LIST OF TABLES, pg. ix*LIST OF FIGURES, pg. xi*PREFACE, pg. xiii*INTRODUCTION. A COMPARATIVE APPROACH TO UNION POLITICAL ACTIVITY, pg. 1*CHAPTER 1. VARIATIONS IN UNION POLITICAL ACTIVITY, pg. 19*CHAPTER 2. UNIONS, REPRESSION, AND POLITICS, pg. 50*CHAPTER 3. UNIONS AND THE ORGANIZATIONAL REVOLUTION, pg. 77*CHAPTER 4. PRINTING UNIONS AND BUSINESS UNIONISM, pg. 120*CHAPTER 5. COALMINING UNIONS AND POLITICAL UNIONISM, pg. 155*CHAPTER 6. AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE, pg. 195*APPENDIX. UNION SUPPORT FOR RADICAL POLITICAL MEASURES AT AFL CONVENTIONS, pg. 235*BIBLIOGRAPHY, pg. 239*INDEX, pg. 267

Reviews

"A rich study of union political activity that allows us to think through the influence of differing compositions of the labor force on national patterns of labor militancy."—Charles Tilly, The New School for Social Research