If Class Transformation Can Happen There, It Can Happen . . .

Catherine Mulder's Unions and Class Transformation: The Case of the Broadway Musicians brings the New Marxian Class Analysis to issues facing Broadway musicians today. Here, I summarize some of the main contributions of the book and critically engage with a few of the key elements of her analysis. The book is full of interesting details concerning how a musical is organized, the complicated contractual arrangements involved, and the working conditions facing musicians in the orchestra pit. With this background, Mulder employs a class analysis and arrives at a classtransformative strategy for the benefit of the union membership. Her analysis serves as an excellent model for future class-theoretic research.