Part I: The Media Union

1: An integral Part of Journalism: The Newspaper Guild
2: Autonomy! The Creation of the Wire Service Guild
3: AFTRA: Protecting On-Air Journalists
4: Where We Came From: A Brief History of the Writers Guild of America
5: Uniting Freelance Writers: The National Writers Union
6: A Brief Look at NABET
7: Supporting Their Brethren: Printing Trades Unions in the Media
8: IFJ and IOJL Similar, Equal, and Divided

Part II: Social Foundations
Section 1: Legal Foundations

9: Collective Bargaining: A Foundation for Workers Rights
10: AP v. NLRB: The Right to Union Membership, excerpts for the Supreme Court opinion
11: The Union Sop: Requiring Journalists to Join a Union, excerpts from Evans v. Buckley
12: "Cold, Calculating, and Deliberate": The Employment-at-Will Doctrine in Non-Union Journalism

Section 2: Historical Foundations

13: Voices of Labor
14: Before the Blue Eagle: Media Unions Before the American Newspaper Guild
15: Disquisitions
16: The Free Set Free
17: It Seems to Me
18: His Name Was Haywood Broun
19: If This Be Treason: The First Years of the American Newspaper Guild
20: The Open Shop Agreement of the A.N.P.A.
21: Toward Unionization: The American Newspaper Guild and the Newark Ledger Strike of 1934-1935
22: Cocktail Picket Party: The Hollywood Citizen-News Strike, The Newspaper Guild, and the Popularization of the 'Democratic Front' in Los Angeles
23: A Procession Divided: More Than Just a Philosophy of Structure
24: Anti-Communism in the New York Newspaper Guild
25: Who Killed the Herald Tribune ?
26: The Writers Guild Plays "Taps": A Proud Tradition v. A Bottom Line
27: Boycotting NBC News: The NABET Stike of 1987
28: The New York Daily News Strike: Lessons for the Future of the Union Movement

Part III: Contemporary Social Issues
Section 1: Internal Issues

29: The State of the Union: The Newspaper Guild Under the Gun
30: The Once and Future Newspaper Guild
31: AFTRA's First Strike: The Journalist as Strike Breaker
32: Rolling Over and Playing Dead: Accepting Management Handouts
33: Contractual Agreements in Newsroom Democracy
34: A Fight for News Quality
35: New Union Role in Broadcasting
36: Endorsing Politicians and Social Issues: Freedom of Speech and a Union's Right v. Media Credibility and an Illusion of Objectivity
37: The Question of Integrity
38: Solidarity in Coal Country
39: Freedom of Exploitation: A Brief Look At Publishers and Newspaper Carriers

Section 2: External Issues

40: The House of Labor and the Media: Trying to Find the Middle Ground
41: 'When It's Over, We Won't Care About You Anymore': The Mainstream Press Covers Labor
42: The Media and the NFL Players: Anatomy of a Strike
43: The Labor Press in America
44: Reaching Out to the Media: A Union Can Make Itself Heard