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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Boyle, Kevin, 1960- UAW and the heyday of American liberalism, 1945-1968. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1995 (OCoLC)647016686 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Kevin Boyle |
| ISBN: | 080143064X 9780801430640 |
| OCLC Number: | 32626436 |
| Description: | xiv, 338 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction: Politics and principle -- 1. Building the vanguard --2. Craven politics -- 3. The vital center shifts -- 4. The pull of consensus -- 5. The crucible of race -- 6. Something less than perfect -- 7. The coalition of conscience -- 8. Building the great society -- 9. The widening gyre -- 10. Things fall apart -- Epilogue: The limits of liberalism |
| Responsibility: | Kevin Boyle. |
Abstract:
The UAW engaged in these struggles in an attempt to build a cross-class, multiracial reform coalition that would push American politics beyond liberalism and toward social democracy. The effort was in vain; forced to work within political structures - particularly the postwar Democratic party - that militated against change, the union was unable to fashion the alliance it sought. The UAW's political activism nevertheless suggests a new understanding of labor's place in postwar American politics and of the complex forces that defined liberalism in that period. The book also supplies the first detailed discussion of the impact of the Vietnam War on a major American union and shatters the popular image of organized labor as being hawkish on the war.
Engrossing and richly developed, The UAW and the Heyday of American Liberalism draws on extensive research in the records of the UAW and in papers of leading liberals, including Martin Luther King Jr., Harry Truman, John Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Hubert Humphrey, and Adlai Stevenson.
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- International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace, and Agricultural Implement Workers of America -- Political activity -- History.
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- Liberalism -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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- Automobile, Travailleurs de l' -- Syndicats -- États-Unis -- Activité politique -- Histoire.
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