"I wanted to write a book that would be not just extolling the virtues of the unions but also would point out some of their difficulties and problems to give a kind of balanced view of them, I mean, not a negative view like a right-winger would give, but from a critical perspective. So, that's why I wrote the book [Why Unions Matter]. Actually as books published by small presses go, this one has done pretty well, over the years it's sold pretty well, so we thought since it was the tenth anniversary -- last year was -- it would be a good time to put out a new edition of the book. So, I went through it and I updated it, I fixed as many errors as I could in the first edition, and we came up with the second edition." -- Michael D. Yates
