Book: The Unions and the Democrats: An Enduring Alliance

Although labor unions have faced a decline in membership in recent decades, they have not necessarily lost their political clout. This timely book illuminates the inner dynamics of labor's relationship to the American political system over the past generation. It examines organized labor from the Johnson administration to the end of Clinton's first term, showing that labor's alliance with the Democratic Party has endured despite changes in the economy and the revival of conservatism.


Available for purchase from Cornell University Press or Amazon.com.

Reviews of the book:

• Lowell Turner, British Journal of Industrial Relations
• Marick F. Masters, Industrial and Labor Relations Review
• Andrew Hacker, New York Review of Books
• Myron Lieberman, Labor Watch
• David Rouse, Booklist
• John Gerring, Political Science Quarterly
• W.P. Browne, Choice
• Stephen Amberg, American Political Science Review
• Joseph McGarrity, Journal of Labor Research
• Immanuel Ness, WorkingUSA: The Journal of Labor and Society
• Clayton Sinyai, Party Politics
• Robert Bruno, Labor Studies Journal
• Journal of Economic Literature
  
• Mylena Sutton, Sutton Biz Services Blog

Summary page with excerpts from all reviews.

List of citations of my publications.

Peer-Reviewed Articles and Chapters in Edited Volumes

• "Prospects for Labor Law Reform," Perspectives on Work (Winter 2009)
  
  
• “The Democrats and Organized Labor: The Partnership Continues,” in Voting in America, ed. Morgan Felchner (Greenwood Press, 2008)
  
  
• “Reclaiming the Future: Space Advocacy and the Idea of Progress,” in The Societal Impact of Spaceflight, ed. Steven Dick (Washington, D.C.: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 2008)
  
  
• “Organization Theory and Stages of Decline: The Case of the AFL-CIO, 1955-2005,” International Journal of Organization Theory and Behavior (Summer 2007)
  
  
• “Americans Abroad: The Challenge of a Globalized Electorate,” PS: Political Science & Politics (October 2003)
  
  
• "To Reward and Punish: A Classification of Union Political Strategies," Journal of Labor Research (Summer 2003)
  
  
• "From Resistance to Adaptation: Labor Unions in Presidential Nominating Politics," in The Making of the Presidential Candidates, 2004, ed. William G. Mayer (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2003)
  
  
• "The Rise of a Global Party? American Party Organizations Abroad," Party Politics (March 2003)
  
  
• "Labor and the Democratic Party: A Report on the 1998 Elections," Journal of Labor Research (Fall 2000)
  
  
• "Debating Decline: the 1995 Battle for the AFL-CIO Presidency," Labor History (Summer 1999)
  
  
• "Organized Labor and the Congressional Democrats," Political Science Quarterly (Spring 1996)
  
  
• "Organized Labor and Party Reform: A Reassessment," Polity (Summer 1996)
  
  
• "Organized Labor and the Presidential Nominating Process," Presidential Studies Quarterly (Summer 1996)
  
  
• "No Illusions--Russia's Student Generation," The National Interest (Spring 1996). Reprinted in Prospect (UK), July 1996.
  
  
• "Organized Labor and the Carter Administration: The Origins of Conflict," in The Presidency and Domestic Policies of Jimmy Carter, ed. Herbert Rosenbaum and Alexej Ugrinsky (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1994)