ABSTRACT
The chapters in this book point to a number of ways in which the changed environment facing the U.S. labor movement requires it to change its ways of operating if it is to be adequate to the tasks at hand. For example, continuing the relative isolation from, and absence of solidarity with, unions and workers abroad can lead only to continuing loss of power and relevance as the U.S. economy continues to integrate into the world economy. Likewise, an inability to organize immigrant workers or to establish a strongly positive relationship with immigrant communities can only harm organized labor in a country where immigrants—primarily from Asia and Latin America—will be an ever-increasing proportion of the U.S. labor force.
