The Politics of U.S. Labor

The Politics of U.S. Labor
Title The Politics of U.S. Labor PDF eBook
Author David Milton
Publisher New York : Monthly Review Press
Pages 200
Release 1982
Genre Business & Economics
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"The alliance of the industrial labor movement with the Democratic Party under Franklin D. Roosevelt has, perhaps more than any other factor, shaped the course of class relations in the United States over the ensuing forty years. Much has been written on the interests that were thereby served, and those that were coopted. In this detailed examination of the strategies pursued by both radical labor and the capitalist class in the struggle for industrial unionism, David Milton argues that while radical social change and independent political action were traded off by the industrial working class for economic rights, this was neither automatic nor inevitable. Rather, the outcome was the result of a fierce struggle in which capital fought labor and both fought for control over government labor policy. And, as he demonstrates, crucial to the outcome was the specific nature of the political coalitions contending for supremacy. In analyzing the politics of this struggle, Milton presents a fine description of the major strikes, beginning in 1933-1934, that led to the formation of the CIO and the great industrial unions. He looks closely at the role of the radical political groups, including the Communist Party, the Trotskyists, and the Socialist Party, and provides an enlightening discussion of their vulnerability during the red-baiting era. He also examines the battle between the AFL and the CIO for control of the labor movement, the alliance of the AFL with business interests, and the role of the Catholic Church. Finally, he shows how the extraordinary adeptness of President Roosevelt in allying with labor while at the same time exploiting divisions within the movement was essential to the successful channeling of social revolt into economic demands."--Amazon.com viewed November 16, 2020

Class and Power in the New Deal

Class and Power in the New Deal
Title Class and Power in the New Deal PDF eBook
Author G. William Domhoff
Publisher Stanford University Press
Pages 304
Release 2011-06-29
Genre Social Science
ISBN 0804779023

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Class and Power in the New Deal provides a new perspective on the origins and implementation of the three most important policies that emerged during the New Deal—the Agricultural Adjustment Act, the National Labor Relations Act, and the Social Security Act. It reveals how Northern corporate moderates, representing some of the largest fortunes and biggest companies of that era, proposed all three major initiatives and explores why there were no viable alternatives put forward by the opposition. More generally, this book analyzes the seeming paradox of policy support and political opposition. The authors seek to demonstrate the superiority of class dominance theory over other perspectives—historical institutionalism, Marxism, and protest-disruption theory—in explaining the origins and development of these three policy initiatives. Domhoff and Webber draw on extensive new archival research to develop a fresh interpretation of this seminal period of American government and social policy development.

Making a New Deal

Making a New Deal
Title Making a New Deal PDF eBook
Author Lizabeth Cohen
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 569
Release 2014-11-06
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 1107431794

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Examines how ordinary factory workers became unionists and national political participants by the mid-1930s.

Labor and the New Deal

Labor and the New Deal
Title Labor and the New Deal PDF eBook
Author Louis Stark
Publisher
Pages 40
Release 1936
Genre Collective bargaining
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The Woman Behind the New Deal

The Woman Behind the New Deal
Title The Woman Behind the New Deal PDF eBook
Author Kirstin Downey
Publisher Anchor
Pages 498
Release 2010-02-23
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 1400078563

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“Kirstin Downey’s lively, substantive and—dare I say—inspiring new biography of Perkins . . . not only illuminates Perkins’ career but also deepens the known contradictions of Roosevelt’s character.” —Maureen Corrigan, NPR Fresh Air One of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s closest friends and the first female secretary of labor, Perkins capitalized on the president’s political savvy and popularity to enact most of the Depression-era programs that are today considered essential parts of the country’s social safety network.

A New Deal for China’s Workers?

A New Deal for China’s Workers?
Title A New Deal for China’s Workers? PDF eBook
Author Cynthia Estlund
Publisher Harvard University Press
Pages 302
Release 2017-01-02
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 0674971396

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China’s leaders aspire to the prosperity, political legitimacy, and stability that flowed from America’s New Deal, but they are irrevocably opposed to the independent trade unions and mass mobilization that brought it about. Cynthia Estlund’s crisp comparative analysis makes China’s labor unrest and reform legible to Western readers.

Class Struggle and the New Deal

Class Struggle and the New Deal
Title Class Struggle and the New Deal PDF eBook
Author Rhonda F. Levine
Publisher
Pages 252
Release 1988
Genre History
ISBN 9780700603732

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In this reassessment of New Deal policymaking, Rhonda Levine argues that the major constraints upon and catalysts for FDR's policies were rooted in class conflict. Countering neo-Marxist and state-centred theories, which focus on administrative and bureaucratic structures, she contends that too little attention has been paid to the effect of class struggle.