State of the union: a century of American labor

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...

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Main Author: Lichtenstein, Nelson 1944- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton [u.a.] Princeton Univ. Press 2013
Edition:Revised and expanded edition
Series:Politics and society in twentieth-century America
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Online Access:DE-188
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Summary: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. The "labor question" became a burning issue during the Progressive Era because its solution seemed essential to the survival of American democracy itself. 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.
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (XXXI, 360 S.) Ill.
ISBN:9781400848140
DOI:10.1515/9781400848140

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