Andrew G. Lawrence taught for several years in the Woodrow Wilson Department of Politics at the University of Virginia and in the School of Social and Political Science at the University of Edinburgh, where he also served as postgraduate director of African studies. He has also held the positions of visiting lecturer and scholar in the department of study and research into African and Arab countries at the 'Orientale' University of Naples in Italy and the school of politics and social sciences at the European University Institute, Fiesole, Italy. He has written articles published in Comparative Politics, the Journal of Development Studies, Public Policy Research, and New Political Science and was awarded the Anthony Styskal, David Spitz, Ivo Duchacek, and Dankwart A. Rustow Democratization and Civil Society fellowships from the City University of New York Graduate Center, as well as the DAAD and Friedrich Ebert research fellowships.
Part I. Power in Theory and Context: 1. Contending theories of labor power;
2. Contextualizing workers' power; Part II. Employer Strategy and
Collective Action: 3. Varieties of firm strategy: monopolization,
cartelization, and concentration; 4. Varieties of employer associations:
origins, development, and divergence; Part III. Workers: Outlaws, in the
Law and by the Law: 5. Failed incorporation and union response; 6.
Varieties of juridification; Part IV. From Postwar Golden Quarter Century
to Post-Cold War Interlude: 7. The golden quarter century: revival,
containment, or decline?; 8. Union and employer relations after the golden
quarter century; Part V. Collective Action before and in the Global
Economic Crisis: 9. From tripartism to global crisis; 10. Conclusion: doing
the work of crisis without crisis?
