Schools of democracy
Subtitle: a political history of the American labor movement
By: Clayton Sinyai.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Ithaca, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780801444555; 9780801472992
Subjects: Labor movement -- United States -- History; Labor policy -- United States -- History; Labor unions -- United States -- Political activity -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Democracy and the worker, past and present; title: Schools of democracy and independence : the labor movement and the democratic republic; title: A wooden man? : industrialization, democracy and civic virtue; title: The AFL and progressive politics; title: The New Deal and the birth of the CIO; title: The New Deal democracy and industrial unionism at flood tide; title: The AFL-CIO in the age of organization; title: Not a slogan or a fad : labor and the Great Society; title: Aftermath : labor and civic education in lean times.