Union Resilience in Troubled Times

The essays in this volume examine the historic and present-day role of the internal critics of the postwar regimes in Eastern Europe who, whatever their intentions, used Marxism as critique to demolish Marxism as ideocracy, but did not succeed in replacing it.

Garth L. Mangum, Jack Walsh

Introduction; I: The Growth Years, 1960-1975; 1: Success, Challenge, and Response; 2: Historical Prologue; 3: The Accomplishments and Consequences of Collective Bargaining, 1960-1975; 4: Training: The Key To Craft Status; 5: Legislation and Public Policy; II: Challenge and Response, 1976-1993; 6: A Time of Troubles; 7: Counterattack; 8: The View from the Local Level; 9: The Future