TY  - GEN
T1  - The revival of labor liberalism
A1  - Battista, Andrew
LA  - English
PP  - Urbana
PB  - University of Illinois Press
YR  - 2008
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_dda_on1200555725
AB  - Revival of Labor Liberalism is a careful analysis of the twentieth-century decline of unions and liberals and the important efforts to revive their political fortunes. The break in the labor-liberal coalition in the late 1960s paved the way for an ascendant Republican Party and linked business and conservative interests bent on revising earlier policies implemented by the New Deal and the Great Society. Divided by politics and new social movements in the late 1960s, unions and liberals united in several new political organizations between the mid-1970s and mid-1980s in order to rebuild their coalition and its influence. This is the first book to chronicle the efforts of these organizations, which include the Progressive Alliance, Citizen Labor Energy Coalition, and National Labor Committee. 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 both unions and liberals and considers the future of unionism and the labor-liberal coalition in America.
OP  - 268
CN  - HD6510 .B38 2008
SN  - 9780252054365
SN  - 0252054369
SN  - 9780252032325
SN  - 0252032322
KW  - Labor unions : Political activity : United States : History.
KW  - Liberalism : United States : History.
KW  - United States : Politics and government : 20th century.
KW  - Working class : Political activity : United States.
KW  - Progressivism (United States politics)
KW  - Syndicats : Activité politique : États-Unis : Histoire.
KW  - Libéralisme : États-Unis : Histoire.
KW  - États-Unis : Politique et gouvernement : 20e siècle.
KW  - Travailleurs : Activité politique : États-Unis.
KW  - Progressisme : États-Unis.
KW  - HISTORY / General
KW  - Labor unions : Political activity
KW  - Liberalism
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - Working class : Political activity
KW  - United States
KW  - Gewerkschaft
KW  - Liberalismus
KW  - USA
KW  - 1900-1999
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - History
ER  -