The book · California Labor and Industrial Relations
You are reading a book while it is being written.
That is unusual, and it is on purpose. Every week your discussion post does two jobs. It is graded coursework, and it is a report on where the chapter failed you. Your muddiest points decide what gets rewritten. Your workplace stories, with your permission, end up in the printed book.
314Muddiest-point posts read for revision (Weeks 1–5)
4Chapters rewritten so far (Ch. 1–4)
13Classmates named in the manuscript, with permission
+12,800Words added to the full draft since August
From the Classroom →
Each chapter gets one named box built on a classmate’s example. Other examples are woven into the text.
You asked, we revised →
Every muddiest point we counted, how many of you named it, and what changed in the next version.
Contributors →
The classmates whose work is in the book, chapter by chapter.
How to contribute →
How the loop works, what permission means, and how to say no.
The biggest single fix so far: 38 of 61 Week 2 posts named Garmon versus Machinists as the muddiest point. You knew both definitions cold but had no procedure for using them. Chapter 2 now has one. You can see it in three questions on the California toolkit page.