Power in Coalition: Strategies for Strong Unions and Social Change

The labor movement sees coalitions as a key tool for union revitalization and social change, but there is little analysis of what makes them successful or the factors that make them fail. Amanda Tattersall—an organizer and labor scholar—addresses this gap in the first internationally comparative study of coalitions between unions and community organizations.

Tattersall argues that coalition success must be measured by two criteria: whether campaigns produce social change and whether they sus...