Sue the Bastards…Or Not  

The Rule of Lawyers: How the New Litigation Elite Threatens America’s Rule of Law by Walter K. Olson St. Martin’s Press, 2002, 352 pp., $25.95 Democracy by Decree: What Happens When Courts Run Government by Ross Sandler and David Schoenbrod …



Daphne Eviatar Responds  

If Nelson Lichtenstein is only arguing that the contemporary labor movement should be bolstered by ideas, then we don’t disagree. As I noted in my review, inspiration is important. But to sustain the union spirit, workers need to see concrete …



A Dearth of Inspiration  

State of the Union: A Century of American Labor by Nelson Lichtenstein Princeton University Press, 2002, 336 pp., $29.95 Longtime labor supporters may remember the Joe Hill ballads or Ralph Chaplin’s anthem “Solidarity Forever,” but years ago, the unions stopped …



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