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Title:

Organized labor and American politics, 1894-1994 : the labor-liberal alliance / edited by Kevin Boyle.

Publisher:

State University of New York Press,

Copyright Date:

c1998

Description:

x, 274 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Trade-unions--United States--History.--History.
Liberalism--United States--History.
United States--Politics and government--19th century.
United States--Politics and government--20th century.

Other Authors:

Boyle, Kevin, 1960-

Notes:

Based on essays originally published at a conference on labor and politics held at the George Meany Center, Silver Springs, Maryland on November 14, 1994. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

The rules of the game: class politics in twentieth-century America / Richard Oestreicher -- Producerism is consciousness of class: ironworkers' and steelworkers' views on political economy, 1894-1920 / Robert Asher -- Negotiating the state: Frank Walsh and the transformation of labor's political culture in progressive America / Julie Greene -- The failure of Minnesota farmer-laborism / Peter Rachleff -- Autoworkers, electoral politics, and the convergence of class and race: Detroit, 1937-1945 / Bruce Nelson -- The CIO political strategy in historical perspective: creating a high-road economy in the post-war era / Stephen Amberg -- Thoughts on defeating right-to-work: reflections on two referendum campaigns / Gilbert J. Gall -- Little more than ashes: the UAW and American reform in the 1960s / Kevin Boyle -- Labor law revision and the end of the postwar labor accord / Gary M. Fink.

Series:

SUNY series in American labor history

ISBN:

9780791439524 (pbk.)
0791439526 (pbk.)
9780791439517
0791439518

OCLC:

(OCoLC)38073299

LCCN:

97047472

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

SOAX911 -- Simpson College - Dunn Library (Indianola)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)