Organized Labor and American Politics, 1894-1994

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.

• Acknowledgments Introduction Kevin BoylePart One: Building the Labor-Liberal Alliance 1. The Rules of the Game: Class Politics in Twentieth-Century America Richard Oestreicher2. Producerism is Consciousness of Class: Ironworkers' and Steelworkers' Views on Political Economy, 1894–1920 Robert Asher3. Negotiating the State: Frank Walsh and the Transformation of Labor's Political Culture in Progressive America Julie Greene4. The Failure of Minnesota Farmer-Laborism Peter Rachleff5. Autoworkers, Electoral Politics, and the Convergence of Class and Race: Detroit, 1937–1945 Bruce NelsonPart Two: The Labor-Liberal Alliance at Work 6. The CIO Political Strategy in Historical Perspective: Creating a High-Road Economy in the Postwar Era Stephen Amberg7. Thoughts on Defeating Right-to-Work: Reflections on Two Referendum Campaigns Gilbert J. Gall8. Little More than Ashes: The UAW and American Reform in the 1960s Kevin Boyle9. Labor Law Revision and the End of the Postwar Labor Accord Gary M. FinkContributors Index

"Boyle has assembled an excellent collection of essays. Organized Labor and American Politics is a timely subject, the methodology is sophisticated, and the research is impressive. The editor has written an insightful and synthetic introduction which ties it all together quite well." — Nelson Lichtenstein, University of Virginia"This book arrives at a moment of transition and considerable contemporary speculation about the future of labor politics in America. The contributors highlight and diagnose two dramatically different periods of political history: first the rise of labor influence within the Labor-Liberal Alliance (a situation forecast by Progressive Era coalitions and consummated in the New Deal Era); second the post-war operation of the 'alliance' and particularly its inherent limits and decline. Uncommonly concise and well written." — Leon Fink, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill