State of the Union A Century of American Labor - Revised and Expanded Edition

Name: State of the Union A Century of American Labor - Revised and Expanded Edition
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ISBN: 9780691160276

ISBN-10: 0691160279

ISBN-13: 9780691160276

Edition: 2nd 2013 (Revised)

Authors: Nelson Lichtenstein

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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…

Book details

List price: $22.00
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 9/6/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 5.94" wide x 9.33" long x 0.96" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English

Nelson Lichtenstein is the MacArthur Foundation Professor of History and director of the Center for the Study of Work, Labor and Democracy at the University of California, Santa Barbara.



Preface to the 2013 Edition


Preface and Acknowledgments


Introduction



Reconstructing the 1930s



Citizenship at Work



A Labor-Management Accord?



Erosion of the Union Idea



Rights Consciousness in the Workplace



A Time of Troubles



Reorganizing the House of Labor



Obama's America: Liberalism without Unions?


Notes


Index