Mutual Aid and Union Renewal: Cycles of Logics of Action.(Book Review)

Samuel B. Bacharach, Peter A. Bamberger, and William J. Sonnenstuhl. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University press, 2001. 200 pp. $42.50, cloth; $16.95, paper.

The study presented in this book is a challenge to the widely diffused notion of the collapse of community in America as we now choose to go bowling alone (Putnam, 2000). In a set of scenarios that offer a sharp contrast to the vision of the collapse of community, the authors describe in splendid detail the emergence and revitalization of the logic of mutual aid in the labor movement. In so doing, they also challenge the dominant perception of the slow and painful demise of the American labor movement. Even more ...

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