Crossing the Great Divide: Worker Risk and Opportunity in the New Economy. (Book Reviews). (book...

Vicki Smith. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press/ILR press, 2001. 240 pp. $29.95.

The question that Vicki Smith attempts to answer in Crossing the Great Divide is "Why don't workers, in the face of unsettling and sometimes transparently detrimental circumstances, collectively band together to campaign against or sabotage their employers' agendas when such agendas don't appear to advance workers' interests or goals?" (p. 8). Marxist critical theory has long been interested in demonstrating how legal, political, and cultural realms of social life mask underlying relatio