Since World War I, says Joseph McCartin, the central problem of American labor relations has been the struggle among workers, managers, and state officials to r

The alliance of the industrial labor movement with the Democratic Party under Franklin D. Roosevelt has, perhaps more than any other factor, shaped the course o

In a fresh and timely reinterpretation, Nelson Lichtenstein examines how trade unionism has waxed and waned in the nation's political and moral imagination, amo

Unionism in the United States was quite successful during and after World War II, especially during the golden years of American capitalism (1947-73) as workers