Labor Under The New Deal

Author : David Milton
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780853455707

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Politics of US Labor by David Milton Pdf

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.

Author : G. William Domhoff,Michael J. Webber
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2011-06-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780804779029

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Class and Power in the New Deal by G. William Domhoff,Michael J. Webber Pdf

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.

Author : Louis Stark
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1936
Category : Collective bargaining
ISBN : HARVARD:32044031625239

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Labor and the New Deal by Louis Stark Pdf

Author : Amy B. Dean,David B. Reynolds
Publisher : ILR Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2011-05-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780801458491

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A New New Deal by Amy B. Dean,David B. Reynolds Pdf

A Century Foundation Book In A New New Deal, the labor movement leaders Amy B. Dean and David B. Reynolds offer a bold new plan to revitalize American labor activism and build a sense of common purpose between labor and community organizations. Dean and Reynolds demonstrate how alliances organized at the regional level are the most effective tool to build a voice for working people in the workplace, community, and halls of government. The authors draw on their own successes to offer in-depth, contemporary case studies of effective labor-community coalitions. They also outline a concrete strategy for building power at the regional level. This pioneering model presents the regional building blocks for national change. A diverse audience—both within the labor movement and among its allies—will welcome this clear, detailed, and inspiring presentation of regional power-building tactics, which include deep coalition-building, leadership development, policy research, and aggressive political action. A New New Deal explores successful coalitions forged in Los Angeles, Boston, Denver, San Jose, New Haven, and Atlanta toward goals such as universal health insurance for children and sensible redevelopment efforts that benefit workers as well as businesses. The authors view partnerships between labor and grassroots organizations as a mutually beneficial strategy based on shared goals, resulting in a broadened membership base and increased organizational capacity. They make the innovative argument that the labor movement can steward both industry and community and make manifest the ways in which workplace battles are not the parochial concerns of isolated workers, but a fundamental struggle for America's future. Drawing on historical parallels, the authors illustrate how long-term collaborations between labor and community organizations are sowing the seeds of a new New Deal.

Author : Romain Huret,Nelson Lichtenstein,Jean-Christian Vinel
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812252620

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Capitalism Contested by Romain Huret,Nelson Lichtenstein,Jean-Christian Vinel Pdf

In the historical narrative that prevails today, the New Deal years are positioned between two equally despised Gilded Ages—the first in the late nineteenth century and the second characterized by the world of Walmart, globalization, and right-wing populism in which we currently live. What defines these two ages is an increasing level of inequality legitimized by powerful ideologies, namely, Social Darwinism at the end of the nineteenth century and neoliberalism today. In stark contrast, the era of the New Deal was first and foremost an attempt to put an end to inequality in American society. In the historical longue durée, it appears today as a kind of golden age when policymakers and citizens sought to devise solutions to the two major "questions"—labor on one side, social on the other—that were at the heart of the American political economy during the twentieth century. Capitalism Contested argues that the New Deal order remains an effective framework to make sense of the transformation of American political economy over the last hundred years. Contributors offer an historicized analysis of the degree to which that political, economic, and ideological order persists and the ways in which it has been transcended or even overthrown. The essays pay attention not only to those ideas and social forces hostile to the New Deal, but to the contradictions and debilities that were present at the inauguration or became inherent within this liberal impulse during the last half of the twentieth century. The unifying thematic among the essays consists not in their subject matter—politics, political economy, social thought, and legal scholarship are represented—but in a historical quest to assess the transformation and fate of an economic and policy order nearly a century after its creation. Contributors: Kate Andrias, Romain Huret, William P. Jones, Nelson Lichtenstein, Nancy MacLean, Isaac William Martin, Margaret O'Mara, K. Sabeel Rahman, Timothy Shenk, Elizabeth Tandy Shermer, Jason Scott Smith, Samir Sonti, Karen M. Tani, Jean-Christian Vinel.

Author : Jim Powell
Publisher : Crown
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307420718

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FDR's Folly by Jim Powell Pdf

The Great Depression and the New Deal. For generations, the collective American consciousness has believed that the former ruined the country and the latter saved it. Endless praise has been heaped upon President Franklin Delano Roosevelt for masterfully reining in the Depression’s destructive effects and propping up the country on his New Deal platform. In fact, FDR has achieved mythical status in American history and is considered to be, along with Washington, Jefferson, and Lincoln, one of the greatest presidents of all time. But would the Great Depression have been so catastrophic had the New Deal never been implemented? In FDR’s Folly, historian Jim Powell argues that it was in fact the New Deal itself, with its shortsighted programs, that deepened the Great Depression, swelled the federal government, and prevented the country from turning around quickly. You’ll discover in alarming detail how FDR’s federal programs hurt America more than helped it, with effects we still feel today, including: • How Social Security actually increased unemployment • How higher taxes undermined good businesses • How new labor laws threw people out of work • And much more This groundbreaking book pulls back the shroud of awe and the cloak of time enveloping FDR to prove convincingly how flawed his economic policies actually were, despite his good intentions and the astounding intellect of his circle of advisers. In today’s turbulent domestic and global environment, eerily similar to that of the 1930s, it’s more important than ever before to uncover and understand the truth of our history, lest we be doomed to repeat it.

Author : Lizabeth Cohen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 569 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2014-11-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107431799

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Making a New Deal by Lizabeth Cohen Pdf

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

Author : Melvyn Dubofsky
Publisher : Quadrangle/The New York Times Book Company
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105033769394

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American Labor Since the New Deal by Melvyn Dubofsky Pdf

A New York times book.

Author : Kirstin Downey
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2010-02-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781400078561

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The Woman Behind the New Deal by Kirstin Downey Pdf

“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.

Author : Rhonda F. Levine
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN : 0700603735

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Class Struggle and the New Deal by Rhonda F. Levine Pdf

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.

Author : Janet Christine Irons
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Textile Workers' Strike, Southern States, 1934
ISBN : 0252068408

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Testing the New Deal by Janet Christine Irons Pdf

Customary rights -- Homegrown unions -- Union-management cooperation -- New rules -- Dirty deal -- A battle of righteousness -- We must get together in our organization -- No turning back -- Anatomy of a strike -- Which side are you on? -- Aftermath.

Author : Gary Gerstle,Nelson Lichtenstein,Alice O'Connor
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812296587

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Beyond the New Deal Order by Gary Gerstle,Nelson Lichtenstein,Alice O'Connor Pdf

Ever since introducing the concept in the late 1980s, historians have been debating the origins, nature, scope, and limitations of the New Deal order—the combination of ideas, electoral and governing strategies, redistributive social policies, and full employment economics that became the standard-bearer for political liberalism in the wake of the Great Depression and commanded Democratic majorities for decades. In the decline and break-up of the New Deal coalition historians found keys to understanding the transformations that, by the late twentieth century, were shifting American politics to the right. In Beyond the New Deal Order, contributors bring fresh perspective to the historic meaning and significance of New Deal liberalism while identifying the elements of a distinctively "neoliberal" politics that emerged in its wake. Part I offers contemporary interpretations of the New Deal with essays that focus on its approach to economic security and inequality, its view of participatory governance, and its impact on the Republican party as well as Congressional politics. Part II features essays that examine how intersectional inequities of class, race, and gender were embedded in New Deal labor law, labor standards, and economic policy and brought demands for employment, economic justice, and collective bargaining protections to the forefront of civil rights and social movement agendas throughout the postwar decades. Part III considers the precepts and defining narratives of a "post" New Deal political structure, while the closing essay contemplates the extent to which we may now be witnessing the end of a neoliberal system anchored in free-market ideology, neo-Victorian moral aspirations, and post-Communist global politics. Contributors: Eileen Boris, Angus Burgin, Gary Gerstle, Romain Huret, Meg Jacobs, Michael Kazin, Sophia Lee, Nelson Lichtenstein, Joe McCartin, Alice O'Connor, Paul Sabin, Reuel Schiller, Kit Smemo, David Stein, Jean-Christian Vinel, Julian Zelizer.

Author : Douglas A. Blackmon
Publisher : Icon Books
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781848314139

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Slavery by Another Name by Douglas A. Blackmon Pdf

A Pulitzer Prize-winning history of the mistreatment of black Americans. In this 'precise and eloquent work' - as described in its Pulitzer Prize citation - Douglas A. Blackmon brings to light one of the most shameful chapters in American history - an 'Age of Neoslavery' that thrived in the aftermath of the Civil War through the dawn of World War II. Using a vast record of original documents and personal narratives, Blackmon unearths the lost stories of slaves and their descendants who journeyed into freedom after the Emancipation Proclamation and then back into the shadow of involuntary servitude thereafter. By turns moving, sobering and shocking, this unprecedented account reveals these stories, the companies that profited the most from neoslavery, and the insidious legacy of racism that reverberates today.

Author : Milton Derber,Edwin Young
Publisher : Da Capo Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1972-01-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:49015001135004

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Labor And The New Deal by Milton Derber,Edwin Young Pdf

Historical study of the activities of the trade union movement in the USA from 1929 to 1939 - comments on union membership growth, labour legislation, social security, labour relations, collective bargaining developments, etc. Bibliography pp. 373 to 378.

Author : Colin Gordon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1994-07-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521457556

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New Deals by Colin Gordon Pdf

This book, an economic history of the interwar era, is the first major reinterpretation of the New Deal in thirty years.