American Workers, American Unions (The American Moment) - Hardcover

Zieger, Professor Robert H.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0801831261 ISBN 13: 9780801831263

Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986

Synopsis

When published in 1986, American Workers, American Unions was among the first efforts to trace the contentious relationships among workers, unions, business, and the state from World War I through the mid-1980s. In this revised edition Robert Zieger makes use of recent scholarship and bibliographical material to provide a detailed examination of the key issues of the 1980s and 1990s.

"I have used Robert Zieger's American Workers, American Unions in undergraduate courses on labor history and industrial relations. This new edition brings the story up to today--and the new, updated bibliographical essay is a plus for college courses."--Darryl Holter, Institute of Industrial Relations, University of California, Los Angeles.

"A helping of sober truth about the American labor movement and its politics."--John C. Cort, New Oxford Review

About this title

About the Author:

Irwin F. Gellman is the author of Roosevelt and Battista: Good NeighborDiplomacy in Cuba, 1933-1945 and Good Neighbor Diplomacy: United States Policies in Latin America, 1933-1945. An independent scholar, he lives in Corona Del Mar, California.

Review:

What this little book does, and does engagingly and perceptively, is to analyze the cyclical fortunes of organized labor... Eminently successful.

(Peter J. Coleman History)

An excellent supplementary text for undergraduate courses in industrial relations and labor economics.

(Harry P. Cohany Monthly Labor Review)

A helping of sober truth about the American labor movement and its politics... Zieger is fair and objective, and writes in a style that can be read with pleasure and understanding by both academics and truck drivers.

(John C. Cort New Oxford Review)

A balanced, intelligent introduction to the historic themes of modern American labor relations.

(John Hennen Labor Studies Journal)

We can thank Zieger for giving us a strong and often moving account of what he calls the most important period in American working-class history.

(Richard Boyden Journal of American History)

Zieger provides a broad overview of organized labor since 1920. His book, virtually the only available survey that includes the years after World War II, is highly readable and surprisingly concise.

(Darryl Holter Journal of Social History)

There is much to recommend American Workers, American Unions. It is a valuable, comprehensive, and peerless survey of modern American labor history. Zieger deftly parses such complex subjects as the origin and role of the National Labor Relations Board, the expulsion of the so-called communist-dominated unions from the CIO, and the evolution of the 'workplace rule of law.' The book also is, if not the only, then certainly the best treatment of the post-1950 decades.

(Nancy F. Gabin Labor History)

About this edition

• Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0801831261
• ISBN 13: 9780801831263
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 256