Organized Labor and American Politics, 1894-1994: The Labor-Liberal Alliance

Kevin Boyle

Oct 1998 · State University of New York Press

About this ebook

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.

About the author

Kevin Boyle is Associate Professor of History, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. His previous books include The UAW and the Heyday of American Liberalism, 1945-1968 and (with Victoria Getis) Muddy Boots and Ragged Aprons: Images of Working Class Detroit, 1900-1930.