Epitaph for American Labor By Max Green AEI Press, 207 pages, $24.95

Review excerpt:

Though the unionized percentage of the work force is way down, and their collective bargaining clout has diminished, the leaders of organized labor are major players in the Democratic Party, and the resources they can muster for politics remain considerable. Their agenda, as Max Green reminds us in "Epitaph for American Labor" (American Enterprise Institute, 207 pages, $24.95), is implacably statist: on taxes (higher), trade policy (protectionist), racial and sexual group preferences (for), privatization (against), welfare (keep the entitlement), spending (more).

Mr. Dickman is an assistant managing editor of Reader's Digest.