Cultures of Solidarity

Rick Fantasia is Associate Professor of Sociology at Smith College.

• PrefacePart One: Theoretical Directions and the Historical Terrain1. Culture and Consciousness in Action2. Corporate Action and the Bounds of SolidarityPart Two: Contemporary Expressions of Consciousnessand Action3· The Internal Dynamics of Wildcat Strikes: Routinizationand Its Discontents4· Union Organizing and Collective Interaction: "Like aThief in the Night"5· The Strike as Emergent Culture: Community andCollective Action6. The Limits and Possibilities of Trade Union ActionAppendixThe Measures Taken: Some Notes on MethodologyNotesBibliographyIndex