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Author Lichtenstein, Nelson.

Title A contest of ideas : capital, politics, and labor / Nelson Lichtenstein.

Publisher Urbana : University of Illinois Press, ©2013.

ISBN 9780252037856 (hardcover) (alkaline paper)
0252037855 (hardcover) (alkaline paper)
9780252079405 (paperback) (alkaline paper)
025207940X (paperback) (alkaline paper)



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Description 314 pages ; 25 cm.
Series Title Working class in American history.
Working class in American history
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [261]-303) and index.
Contents II Shaping Myself, Shaping History -- Writing and Rewriting Labor's Narrative -- Supply-Chain Tourist; or, How Globalization Has Transformed the Labor Question -- Historians as Public Intellectuals -- II Capital, Labor, and the State -- Tribunes of the Shareholder Class -- "The Man in the Middle": A Social History of Automobile Industry Foremen -- From Corporatism to Collective Bargaining: Organized Labor and the Eclipse of Social Democracy in the Postwar Era -- Communism On the Shop Floor and Off -- III Rights Revolution -- Opportunities Found and Lost: Labor, Radicals, and the Early Civil Rights Movement -- Lost Promise of the Long Civil Rights Movement -- A New Era of Global Human Rights: Good for the Trade Unions? -- IV Specter on the Right -- United States in the Great Depression: Was the Fascist Door Open? -- Market Triumphalism and the Wishful Liberals -- Did 1968 Change History? -- Bashing Public Employees and Their Unions -- V Intellectuals and their Ideas -- C. Wright Mills -- Harvey Swados -- B. J. Widick -- Jay Lovestone -- Herbert Hill -- Do Graduate Students Work? -- Why American Unions Need Intellectuals.
Summary Offers important perspectives on the relationship of labour and the state.
Subject(S) Labor -- United States -- History.
Labor unions -- United States -- History.
Working class -- United States -- History.
Capitalism -- United States -- History.
ISBN 9780252037856 (hardcover) (alkaline paper)
0252037855 (hardcover) (alkaline paper)
9780252079405 (paperback) (alkaline paper)
025207940X (paperback) (alkaline paper)