Synopsis
Covers the period 1920-1985.
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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.
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