Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets

"I have a hunch that the on-the-ground reality of strikes, why they happen, how they're negotiated, how they end. Basically, little relationship to the Ivy Tower theories my colleagues create," he says. "At some very basic level, strikes would seem to be all about economics ... I suspect that there are many other more powerful forces at work." The author was inspired by his favorite TV show Cops and Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets.