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The revival of labor liberalism

Title
The revival of labor liberalism / Andrew Battista.
Author
Battista, Andrew.
Publication
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2008], ©2008.

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x, 268 pages; 25 cm
Summary
"The Revival of Labor Liberalism is an analysis of the twentieth-century decline of unions and liberals and the important efforts to revive their political fortunes." "Drawing from extensive documentary research and in-depth interviews with union leaders and political activists, Andrew Battista argues that these new organizations made limited but real progress in reconstructing and strengthening the labor-liberal coalition. He also shows that their restorative efforts were closely tied to factional conflicts in the labor movement. Although the labor-liberal alliance remains far weaker than the rival business conservative alliance, Battista emphasizes its crucial role in labor and political history since 1968. In focusing on this evolving partnership, this study provides a broad analysis of factional divisions among unions and liberals and considers the future of unionism and the labor-liberal coalition in America."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-259) and index.
Contents
Pt. 1. The Rise and Decline of the Labor-Liberal Coalition -- 1. Understanding the Labor-Liberal Coalition -- 2. The Rise of the Labor-Liberal Coalition -- 3. The Decline of the Labor-Liberal Coalition -- 4. Labor Redivided -- Pt. 2. The Revival of the Labor-Liberal Coalition: Case Studies -- 5. The Progressive Alliance -- 6. The Citizen Labor Energy Coalition -- 7. The National Labor Committee -- 8. The Political Strategy and Social Bases of the Dissident Unions -- Pt. 3. The Past and Future of Labor-Liberal Politics -- 9. Toward, and Beyond, 1995 -- 10. The Labor-Liberal Coalition: Retrospect and Prospect.
ISBN
  • 9780252032325 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0252032322 (cloth : alk. paper)
LCCN
  • 2007023291
  • 40015185445
OCLC
  • ocn144329471
  • SCSB-5393490
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries