title: Strike: The Daily News War and the Future of American Labor
author:  Richard Vigilante 
description: Vigilante, editorial director of the Center for Social Thought, combines solid, detailed reporting with less firmly grounded analysis in this ambitious, absorbing book. In covering the ugly five-month strike in 1990-1991 at the Tribune Co.'s New York Daily News , Vigilante ably describes union excesses--with many men paid not to work, employee compensation was 30% higher than industry scale--and sketches the negotiators, including union adviser Theodore Kheel and super-tough management lawyer Bob Ballow. Because reporters joined the strike of craft unions, the workers gained press sympathy, while union intimidation of newsdealers was shrugged at. The strike ended with the paper's purchase by Robert Maxwell; within days of Maxwell's death the following November, the paper was in Chapter 11, and was later sold to Mortimer Zuckerman. Vigilante undermines his reporting with expressions of his fervent belief in the value of self-reliance that don't acknowledge the varied realities of the American workplace. <br />Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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  **Corporate Policing, Yellow**
  
  
  **Unionism, and Strikebreaking,**
  
  
  **1890–1930**
  
  
  This book provides a comparative and transnational examination of the complex
  and multifaceted experiences of anti-labour mobilisation, from the bitter
  social conflicts of the pre-war period, through the epochal tremors of war and
  revolution, and the violent spasms of the 1920s and 1930s.
  
  
  It retraces the formation of an extensive market for corporate policing,
  privately contracted security and yellow unionism, as well as processes of
  professionalisation in strikebreaking activities, labour espionage and
  surveillance. It reconstructs the diverse spectrum of right-wing patriotic
  leagues and vigilante corps which, in support or in competition with law
  enforcement agencies, sought to counter the dual dangers of industrial
  militancy and revolutionary situations. Although considerable research has
  been done on the rise of socialist parties and trade unions the repress