Organized labor and American politics, 1894-1994
Subtitle: the labor-liberal alliance
By: edited by Kevin Boyle.
Contributors: Boyle, Kevin, 1960-
Series: SUNY series in American labor history
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 274
Subjects: Labor unions -- United States -- Political activity -- History; Liberalism -- United States -- History; United States -- Politics and government -- 19th century; United States -- Politics and government -- 20th century
Description: Organized Labor and American Politics, 1894-1994 traces the rise and fall of labor's power over the course of the twentieth century. It does so through provocative and engaging essays written by distinguished scholars of the modern labor movement. The essays focus on different times and places, from turn-of-the-century steel mills to the streets of 1930s Detroit to the halls of Congress in the 1990s.

Drawing on a broad range of primary sources, the authors adopt a variety of approaches, from broad syntheses to careful case studies. Altogether, the essays tell a single story of workers struggling to find a voice for themselves and their unions within the nation they helped to build. It is a story of victories won and of defeats endured.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Based on essays originally published at a conference on labor and politics held at the George Meany Center, Silver Springs, Maryland on November 14, 1994.