A Labor Activist Turned Scholar Helps Unions With Recruiting Woes

Kate Bronfenbrenner shows how organizing tactics influence workers

Corporate chieftains don't think twice about seeking business advice from academics who've never set foot in a boardroom. But when the leaders of organized labor needed help in arresting its long decline in membership and clout, they looked for a consultant with both the training of a social scientist and the savvy of a union activist. Luckily for union officials, they

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