Stephanie Ross is an associate professor in the School of Labour Studies at McMaster University and the founding president of the Canadian Association for Work and Labour Studies. Larry Savage is a professor in the Department of Labour Studies at Brock University. They are the co-authors of Building a Better World: An Introduction to the Labour Movement in Canada and co-editors of Public Sector Unions in the Age of Austerity, Rethinking the Politics of Labour in Canada, and Labour under Attack: Anti-Unionism in Canada.

• 1 Shifting Gears: An Introduction2 In the Driver's Seat: The Birth of the CAW and the Promise of Social Unionism3 Back-Seat Driver? The CAW as Left Critic, 1988–954 Winding Road: Rebuilding the Left, 1995–20035 A Fork in the Road: The CAW Turns to Economic and Political Defensiveness, 2003–126 Merge Ahead: The Birth of Unifor and the Consolidation of Transactional Politics, 2013–217 Head-On Collision: The Fall of Jerry Dias and the Future of Unifor8 The Road Ahead: Unifor and the Changing Landscape of Working-Class PoliticsNotes; Selected Bibliography; Index

"Ross and Savage's book also has lessons for the broader labour movement, including academic staff associations."- Susan Spronk, University of Ottawa (CAUT) "…the value of this book is the care with which it studies the internal dynamics of a labor union. There are simply not enough studies like this, especially for Canadian labor, and we need more of them."- Barry Eidlin, McGill University (Jacobin) "Shifting Gears is an impressive achievement. It covers over half a century of union history and traces the political evolution of Canada's most interesting and iconic union…"- Herman Rosenfeld (Socialist Project) "[Shifting Gears] promises to be a landmark study of one of Canada's most important unions and its impact on politics in the broader labour movement."- Stephane Doucet (People's Voice)