Nelson Lichtenstein is one of the most influential historians of the twentieth-century labor movement in the United States. In his most recent book, he examines the labor movement's current difficulties and prospects, bringing to bear on the discussion both his impressive historical knowledge and his own engagement in current efforts to reinvigorate the movement and to rebuild alliances between the unions and intellectuals. The book is not an analysis of the dynamics of workers' struggles or even an institutional study of the labor movement, but rather a close examination of the declining importance of the “labor question” (as it was commonly called a century ago) in the intellectual and political life of the United States since the end of the 1930s.