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A veteran reporter on American labor, John P. Hoerr analyzes the spectacular and tragic collapse of the steel industry in the 1980s. "And the Wolf Finally Came" demonstrates how an obsolete and adversarial relationship between management and labor made it impossible for the industry to adapt to a rapidly changing global economy.

Centered around mostly ordinary people, "Harry, Tom, and Father Rice" relates the story of the author's uncle Harry Davenport, union leader Tom Quinn, and Father Charles Owen Rice to the great conflict between anti-Communist and Communist forces in the American labor movement.

Hoerr's first novel but fourth book paints a vivid portrait of labor relations in industrial McKeesport.

Explodes the popular belief that women white-collar workers tend to reject unionization and accept a passive role in the workplace. The author tells this story from the perspective of both Harvard administrators and union organizers. With access to its meetings, leaders, and files, he examines the culture of a female-led union from the inside.

The drama was played out in innumerable hearings before the National Labor Relations Board, in the streets of Cambridge, and on the walks of historic Harvard Yard, where union members marched and sang and employed new tactics like " ballooning, " designed to communicate a message of joy and liberation rather than the traditional " hate-the-boss" hostility. John Hoerr tells this story from the perspective of both Harvard administrators and unio...