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Author: Andrew Battista
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Imprint: University of Illinois Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 2.30cm
, Length: 23.50cm
Weight: 0.540kg
ISBN: 9780252032325
ISBN 10: 0252032322
Pages: 280
Publication Date: 19 February 2008
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
Battista's well-researched, informative account of labor's political struggles illuminates an important dimension of industrial relations history. Highly recommended. --Choice An important source both for historians and labour-liberal activists. --Labour/Le Travail Battista's analysis of attempts to rebuild a labor-liberal coalition provides considerable new information about the role played by union leaders and their reformer counterparts. --Industrial and Labor Relations Review [Battista] provides a rich discussion of political rivalries between the dominant and dissident wings of labor, competition over institutional resources, and the coordination of position-taking between labor liberals and non-labor liberals. --Journal of American History I recommend the book-certainly anyone who lived through the last four or five decades and possesses a scholarly interest in American politics will find themselves informed. --Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare Battista's focus on the forty years after 1968 offers readers new insights into efforts by labor liberals to reconstruct the alliance to fir the contemporary political environment... Highly readable. --Labor Studies Journal
Battista's well-researched, informative account of labor's political struggles illuminates an important dimension of industrial relations history. Highly recommended. -- Choice
Battista's well-researched, informative account of labor's political struggles illuminates an important dimension of industrial relations history. Highly recommended. --Choice Battista's analysis of attempts to rebuild a labor-liberal coalition provides considerable new information about the role played by union leaders and their reformer counterparts. --Industrial and Labor Relations Review [Battista] provides a rich discussion of political rivalries between the dominant and dissident wings of labor, competition over institutional resources, and the coordination of position-taking between labor liberals and non-labor liberals. --Journal of American History I recommend the book-certainly anyone who lived through the last four or five decades and possesses a scholarly interest in American politics will find themselves informed. --Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare Battista's focus on the forty years after 1968 offers readers new insights into efforts by labor liberals to reconstruct the alliance to fir the contemporary political environment. . . . Highly readable. --Labor Studies Journal An important source both for historians and labour-liberal activists. --Labour/Le Travail The Revival of Labor Liberalism is a well-focused narrative history of the liberal-labor coalition during a time of great political and economic change. Anyone who is interested in understanding the development of liberalism and labor politics over the last forty years will find this book exceptionally useful. --Taylor E. Dark, author of The Unions and the Democrats: An Enduring Alliance An innovative analysis of the social bases of liberal unionism, The Revival of Labor Liberalism addresses an important question: What happened to the liberal-labor coalition after the late 1960s and early '70s? Rejecting the simple and too often assumed answer that the coalitions simply collapsed, missing an opportunity to achieve many of the long-time goals of the New Deal-coalition, Battista sets out to show that the left-liberal wing of the labor movement enjoyed a resurgence in the mid-1990s, which itself grew out of a number of different left-liberal-labor alliances that were forged in the late 1970s and '80s. --Peter B. Levy, author of The New Left and Labor in the 1960s
Battista's well-researched, informative account of labor's political struggles illuminates an important dimension of industrial relations history. Highly recommended. -- Choice An important source both for historians and labour-liberal activists. -- Labour/Le Travail
Author Information
Andrew Battista is a professor emeritus of American politics and political theory at East Tennessee State University.
