Abstract

For the past fifty years, the labor movement has experienced a dramatic decline in both its power and membership base. Labor's increasingly dependent and dysfunctional relationship with the Democratic Party is perhaps the dramatic indicator of its declining power. Despite the at best neglectful and at worst hostile relationship of Democratic legislators to the needs of working people, national union leaders continue to behave as though legislative corridors of power are the primary if not the only fix for what ails labor. Clearly, labor leaders have been unwilling to take the risks necessary to build new forms of power commensurate with the present political and economic challenge.

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