{"product_id":"in-the-interest-of-others-9780691158570","title":"In the Interest of Others","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDevelops a theory of organizational leadership and governance to explain why some organizations expand their scope of action in ways that do not benefit their members directly. This title reveals how activist labor unions expand the community of fate and provoke preferences that transcend the private interests of individual members.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCo-Winner of the 2014 Best Book Award, The Labor Project of the American Political Science Association \"Ahlquist and Levi are able to show how the ILWU was able and remains able to transcend the life trajectory of its founding leader, Harry Bridges, and establish and maintain a commitment to social activism, political mobilization, and an expanded community of fate. Those who wish to move the labor movement toward this vision of social movement unionism would do well to examine this work for its insights.\"--Jacob Lesniewski, Social Service Review \"The study is an interesting and convincing discussion of why an organization may expand its interests and even support causes or ideas that seem to violate the self-interests of its members. It should add significantly to both the literature on collective action and institutional choice.\"--Choice \"This is an impressive book that sheds light on an important but poorly understood topic: Why do some organizations engage in solidaristic behavior to promote wider social justice issues, while others focus narrowly on the self-interest of their members?\"--Evelyne Huber, Perspectives on Politics \"The book is quite brilliant in terms of the rigor of its analytic argument and its use of a variety of methods to test and further revise core assumptions... The book is itself a major achievement of collective (research) action to which anyone working on these kinds of questions ought to pay special attention.\"--Carmen Sirianni, Perspectives on Politics \"An essential part of any trade union program preparing people for leadership roles.\"--Rowan Cahill, Labour History\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Figures ix  List of Tables xi  Acknowledgments xiii  Chapter 1: Beyond Economism 1  Our Argument 5  The Cases 10  Alternative Accounts 15  The Chapters 18  Chapter 2: Building an Encompassing Community of Fate and Winning Consent 22  Leaders, Governance, and Organizational Performance 25  Modeling Organizational Scope and Governance 28  From Leadership Rents to Organizational Governance Institutions 38  Summary and Conclusions 43  Appendix 45  Chapter 3: Pork, Perks, and Predation 53  International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) 55  The ILA 71  Discussion 77  Chapter 4: An Injury to Anyone Is an Injury to All 79  Commonalities Between the ILWU and WWF 80  ILWU 84  WWF 103  Tension between Political and Industrial Commitments 113  Continuity Over Time 114  Conclusion 118  Chapter 5: Managing Heterogeneity 120  Managing the Heterogeneity of Locals 121  Managing Individual Heterogeneity 135  Conclusion 152  Chapter 6: Provoking Preferences 155  The Literature 157  Preference Provocation 162  Evidence of Preference Provocation 168  Evidence of Contingent Consent 181  Conclusions 183  Chapter 7: Political Attitudes and Behavior among ILWU Members, with Amanda B. Clayton 185  Employment, Compensation, and Shipping Volumes on the U.S. West Coast 187  International Trade and Public Opinion 189  The ILWU's Organizational Principles and International Trade 192  ILWU Members' and Affiliates' Attitudes Toward Trade 199  ILWU Affiliates' Political Behavior 212  Robustness Considerations 216  Conclusion 219  Appendices 220  Chapter 8: Signaling Solidarity? 230  Bargaining, Strikes, and Politics 233  The ILWU 238  The WWF 251  Conclusion 256  Appendix 259  Chapter 9: Conclusions and Implications 261  Union Behavior 262  Other Membership Organizations 265  Firms 268  The State 269  Other Implications 272  Communities of Fate 276  Bibliography 279  Index 303","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403799699799,"sku":"9780691158570","price":27.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691158570.jpg?v=1730484581","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/in-the-interest-of-others-9780691158570","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}