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Labor's Heartland Losses and What They Mean for Working Americans
Stephen Franklin
Foreword by William Serrin
· Introduction: On Work, Writing about Work, and the Workers in Decatur
I. They Lead The Way
1. Destined to Do Right: Larry Solomon, Union Man, versus Caterpillar
2. Searching for a Strategy: Staley, a Small-Town Family Business, Goes Global
3. Labor's Savior?: Ray Rogers, Slayer of Corporate Battle Plans
4. A Leader for the New World Business Order: Don Fites Remakes Caterpillar's Ambitions
5. An Honest-to-Goodness Hard-Liner: Bill Casstevens, Career UAW Man
II. A Blue-Collar Legacy: Working In History'S Wake
6. On the Prairie's Terms
7. Factory Town USA
8. The Great Industrial Slide and Washout: A Storm Cloud in American History?
9. The Scab Ascendancy: How Weakened Unions Got Even Weaker
III. A Call To Arms
10. Sizing Up the Enemy
11. The New Paladins: Guardians at the Gates
12. Collapse and Surrender
13. A Historical Question: What If . . . ?
14. Forming a Second Front: The Staley Workers Join the Fray
15. A Third Flank: The Tire Workers Go on Strike and the Beginning of the End of a Longtime Union
IV. Skirmishes And Sieges
16. Living amid Fear and Hatred: The Strikebreakers
17. The New Law of a Larger Land: The Gladiator Companies
18. No Help Here: The Trade Union Workers
19. Lost in a Maze: The NLRB
V. Rallying
20. Hit and Run at Caterpillar
21. Desperately Seeking Solutions
22. The Ballot Box Rebellion
23. The Road Warriors Meet the Labor Mandarins
VI. Surrender And Retreat
24. Slumbering into Oblivion
25. Still Waiting for Victory—Or Something
26. A Sad Armistice: The Staley Workers Lose Out
27. All Things Fall Apart: The Caterpillar Workers Suffer Defeat Too
28. An Unexpected Good-Bye: The Bridgestone/Firestone Workers Lose Some of Their History
VII. Heartfelt Losses
29. Unhealing Wounds
30. Leave No Bodies Behind: The Autoworkers Live Up to Their Word
31. Strategic Instincts: The Steelworkers Think Globally
32. Lost on Eldorado
· Epilogue: Heartbreak in the Heartland
