Teri L. Caraway is the author of Assembling Women: The Feminization of Global Manufacturing (2007) and co-editor of Working through the Past: Labor and Authoritarian Legacies in Comparative Perspective (2015). Her research focuses on comparative labor politics, comparative and international political economy, and the Indonesian labor movement.

1. Introduction; 2. The street and the ballot box; 3. National and local policy struggles, 1998-2008; 4. Shifting to offense; 5. Local executive races; 6. Legislative contests; 7. Building a working-class constituency; 8. Conclusion.