As with all reviews, I begin with glowing tributes to a book which will, I hope, be found interesting in its own right, but also can be used to contribute towards important current discussions on trade union renewal and the "service", "organising" and "community" models central to that debate. Only later (conforming to the usual pattern) will I start to stick in the knife with what used to be called, many years ago, an "auto-critique".

Sheila Cohen, Ramparts of Resistance: Why Workers Lost Their Power, and How to Get it Back Pluto Press 2006.

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