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The Compromising of the Constitution: Early Departures . By Rexford G. Tugwell. (Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 1976. Pp. xi + 188. $8.95.)

Philip Taft, a distinguished senior labor historian, has written a work which, although important, is not theoretically au courant. At a time when social scientists are trying to appraise internal union politics in terms of categories of analysis more sophisticated than those provided by Lipset and Trow's Union Democracy, Taft offers no new sociological assistance. At a time when policy analysts are trying to focus on union prospects in terms of contract negotiations under conditions of a stagnant economy, Taft presents no new relevant economic postulates. Nor does the book seem in touch with the full range of current events affecting organized labor: the lament of civil rights workers over shortcomings in the "Philadelphia Plan," the distress of labor scholars over flagging efforts on behalf of civil rights training in labor study groups, the concern of civil libertarians about corporate wiretapping and management spying. Taft offers no discussion useful to policy makers preoccupied with the politics of stalemate affecting the regulation of migrant workers. In short, the book does not fully deliver on the title's promise. Yet it is an important volume. Its importance can be appreciated best when one realizes that, the broad title notwithstanding, the author neither promises innovative social science analysis nor seeks to present a review of the many problems of current events that immediately rush to mind under the heading of the rights of union members.