American Labor and the Cold War: Grassroots Politics and Postwar Political Culture
American Labor and the Cold War: Grassroots Politics and Postwar Political Culture
William Issel, Robert W. Cherny | ISBN: 081353402X | PDF | 312 pages | 2004 | 6 MB
"This book is one of the most outstanding of recent years in all the history of U.S. labor, and nearly alone in tackling the complexities at the cross-section of Left politics and unionism." –Paul Buhle, senior lecturer in American Civilization, Brown University, and co-editor of The Encyclopedia of the American Left
The American labor movement seemed poised on the threshold of unparalleled success at the beginning of the post-World War II era. Fourteen million strong in 1946, unions represented thirty five percent of non-agricultural workers. Why then did the gains made between the 1930s and the end of the war produce so few results by the 1960s?
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