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Rules to Win by: Power and Participation in Union Negotiations

by Jane F. McAlevey

Negotiation as a collective practice

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Negotiation as a collective practice

Drawing on unionization and contract-negotiation campaigns, Jane F. McAlevey and Abby Lawlor examine how workers organize participation and build leverage, including in efforts to prepare strikes in union-hostile settings. The book connects workplace bargaining with broader questions of income inequality and democratic participation, presenting organizing lessons as relevant to campaigns beyond the workplace as well. Its subject is both practical and political: how collective action is developed, and what negotiation struggles can reveal about power.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Workers and union members interested in organizing and contract negotiations
  • Campaigners focused on racial justice, climate issues, or broader social change
  • Students, academics, and policymakers studying labor relations and collective action

Themes

Union negotiationsWorker participation and powerCollective actionIncome inequalityDemocratic participation

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Book overview

Rules to Win By: Participation and Power in Union Negotiations is a book for anyone who wants to understand how to build the power required to effectively challenge and reverse income inequality and attacks on democracy. Drawing insights from recent hard-won unionization and contract negotiation fights, Jane McAlevey and Abby Lawlor use lessons from some of the toughest fights today--preparing a durable, all-out strike in a union-hostile environment--to provide a masterclass in participatory social change, indispensable both within and beyond the workplaces where we spend half of our waking lives.

In an era of polarization, big lies, and massive legislative setbacks, changemakers in every arena need to learn the skills and lessons honed in pitched battles against experienced and ruthless union busters. Rules to Win By is a book for workers, unionists, racial justice and climate campaigners, academics, policymakers and everyone who wants a more fair and democratic society.
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