This essay presents a framework for decision making by labor union leaders facing critical choices regarding the survival of their organizations. I argue that labor union leaders must place decisions regarding all aspects of their union life—from big picture concerns regarding political action, organizing opportunities, and collective bargaining to day-to-day issues regarding hiring of staff, r...

This article explores how online multiplayer digital games are used as a venue for the negotiation of intellectual property rights. Recent disputes between players and creators are contributing to both a shift in contemporary notions about the nature and limits of copyright and a growing relationship between virtual leisure and real-world economics. A brief overview of the debate as it has been...

Two debates currently mark West German discussions of social history. The first centers around the contention of an "end of the labor movement." The second focuses on the "New History Movement" with its related efforts to describe the everyday life of the past (Alltagsgeschichte) and to rewrite history "from the bottom up ." Certainly the Social Democrative party (SPD), the trade union movement...