Rules to Win By

In Rules to Win By, Jane McAlevey and Abby Lawlor draw insights from recent hard-won unionization and contract negotiation fights to provide a guidebook on participatory social change. At the heart of the book is a vision for negotiations rooted in engaging the entire union membership--as well as the broader community in which these battles are waged--directly in the strategizing and negotiation. Rules to Win By offers not only a new theory of negotiation, but also tools and resources for any campaign to harness the power of ordinary people to win the public good.