Contents
About the Author
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Labor Day in America
Part 1. Worlds of Work: Economic and Civil Society
1. The Industry: Gannett and Knight-Ridder
2. Detroit: Labor and Community
3. A "Daily Miracle": The Life of the Workplace
Part 2. The Institutional Regulation of Labor
4. Proper Channels: U.S. Labor Law and Union-Management Relations
5. The Path to Confrontation: The Newspapers' Joint Operating Agreement in Detroit
6. Extraordinary Measures: Planning for War
7. War of Position: The 1995 Contract Negotiations
Part 3. The Spaces of Conflict
8. Worlds Collide: The Start of the Strike
9. Law and Violence: Permanent Replacements and the Control of Collective Action
10. Theaters of Engagement: Civil Society and the State
11. Waiting for Justice: The Return to Work and the End of the Strike
Part 4. Governing the Workplace: American Labor Today
12. Conclusion: A Signal Juncture
Notes
References
Index