Title
- Politics And Society In Twentieth-century America
Attribution
Nelson LichtensteinPublication Details
BookPrinceton University Press2002Availability
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Beginning there, Lichtenstein takes us all the way to the organizing fever of contemporary Los Angeles, where the labor movement stands at the center of the effort to transform millions of new immigrants into alert citizen unionists. The labor movement was therefore tragically unprepared for the years of Reagan and Clinton: although technological change and a new era of global economics battered the unions, their real failure was one of ideas and political will. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Subject
Notes
- "In a fresh and timely reinterpretation, Nelson Lichtenstein examines how trade unionism has waxed and waned in the nation’s political and moral imagination, among both devoted partisans and intransigent foes. From the steel foundry to the burger-grill, from Woodrow Wilson to John Sweeney, from Homestead to Pittston, Lichtenstein weaves together a compelling matrix of ideas, stories, strikes, laws, and people in a streamlined narrative of work and labor in the twentieth century."–BOOK JACKET
Contents
- Ch. 1. Reconstructing the 1930s
- Ch. 2. Citizenship at Work
- Ch. 3. A Labor-Management Accord?
- Ch. 4. Erosion of the Union Idea
- Ch. 5. Rights Consciousness in the Workplace
- Ch. 6. A Time of Troubles
- Ch. 7. What Is to Be Done?
ISBN
- 0691057680
- 9780691057682
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