How can American unions survive in our increasingly globalized business environment? This book suggest that US unions can loook elsewhere to expand their role, by creating ties with workers and unions in other countries and by including immigrant workers - who are growing - in their ranks.

How can American unions survive in our increasingly globalized business environment? This book suggest that US unions can look elsewhere to expand their role, by creating ties with workers and unions in other countries and by including immigrant workers - who are growing - in their ranks.

With the decline of the labor movement in the United States over the past four decades, unions are facing the future with unresolved concerns over free trade agreements, dwindling memberships, and their own leverage with industry and government. Which Direction for Organized Labor? addresses critical questions facing the U.S. labor movements as it approaches the twenty-first century. It analyzes the overall state of organized labor and examines the direction it should take in rebuilding its strength and influence.