On the one hand Shostak uses the word “transformation” on his front cover. On the other, he quotes, on a flyleaf, the words of that personification of nineteenth- and twentieth-century business unionism, Samuel Gompers, President of the American Federation of Labor, 1886–1924. Gompers asked and answered his own question: “What does labor want? More.” This was a quantitative answer to what had earlier been, and today may again be, a qualitative question. So the question is raised, with respect to this book, as with his previous one (Shostak, 1999), whether Shostak wants faster unions or transformed unions.