The bosses sell out.(Solidarity for Sale: How Corruption Destroyed the Labor Movement and Undermined America's Promise)(Book Review) From: National Review | Date: February 13, 2006| Author: Horowitz, Carl F. | COPYRIGHT 2006 National Review, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Solidarity for Sale: How Corruption Destroyed the Labor Movement and Undermined America's Promise, by Robert Fitch (PublicAffairs, 432 pp., $28.50)

ROBERT FITCH is a chastened leftie--as opposed to an ex-leftie. This is an important distinction: The former still believes in the Dream, the pursuit of progressive "social justice," even while admitting the result is often anything but progress; the latter thinks the whole effort is a product of (at best) naive and often per...

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