Schools of democracy : a political history of the American labor movement /

Main Author: Sinyai, Clayton
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Ithaca, N.Y. : ILR Press, 2006.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • 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.