Book review: John S. Ahlquist and Margaret Levi, In the Interest of Others: Organizations and Social Activism

Authors

Rowan Cahill, University of WollongongFollow

RIS ID

100834

Publication Details

Cahill, R. (2015). Book review: John S. Ahlquist and Margaret Levi, In the Interest of Others: Organizations and Social Activism. Labour History: a journal of labour and social history, (108), 200-201.

Link to publisher version (URL)

Australian Society for the Study of Labour History - ASSLH

Abstract

As the poet John Donne famously meditated in 1624, and Ernest Hemingway echoed in 1940, "No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent." John S. Ahlquist and Margaret Levi are interested in this sense of human and social ecology, and investigate it via a comparative study of the memberships, structures, and politics of a target group of American and Australian trade unions.