Schools of Democracy A Political History of the American Labor Movement

Name: Schools of Democracy A Political History of the American Labor Movement
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ISBN: 9780801472992

ISBN-10: 0801472997

ISBN-13: 9780801472992

Edition: 2006

Authors: Clayton Sinyai

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In this new political history of the labor movement, Clayton Sinyai examines the relationship between labor activism and the American democratic tradition. Sinyai shows how America's working people and union leaders debated the first questions of democrat

Book details

List price: $32.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Publication date: 3/31/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.83" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction: Democracy and the Worker, Past and Present



Schools of Democracy and Independence: The Labor Movement and the Democratic Republic



A Wooden Man? Industrialization, Democracy, and Civic Virtue



The AFL and Progressive Politics



The New Deal and the Birth of the CIO



The New Deal Democracy and Industrial Unionism at Flood Tide



The AFL-CIO in the Age of Organization



Not a Slogan or a Fad: Labor and the Great Society


Aftermath: Labor and Civic Education in Lean Times


Notes


Selected Bibliography


Index