Unions, Radicals, and Democratic Presidents
Praeger Publishers Inc (Verlag)
978-0-313-32471-0 (ISBN)
Frequently facing repression, left-wingers nevertheless managed to pass their values on to their children, who in turn sustained new sets of social movements. Leftists worked alongside other progressives to form left-center coalitions on issues such as Civil Rights and labor law reform. Influenced by liberalism, Roosevelt, Johnson, and Kennedy gave crucial assistance to the social change process. Shying away from liberalism, Carter and Clinton and Vice President Gore failed to provide comparable assistance, disappointing progressive activists and unions and leading to important setbacks. Whether the Democratic Party will once again seek to elect a president with a liberal vision to assist a revitalized labor movement, a newly energized left, and left-center coalitions in the social change process remains to be seen.
MARTIN HALPERN is Professor of History at Henderson State University in Arkansas. He is the author of UAW Politics in the Cold War Era and the lead author of Minority Health in Michigan: Closing the Gap.
List of Illustrations and Tables Preface Abbreviations Introduction The Labor Movement: Leader of Social Change or Just Another Interest Group? Children of the Left Sharing Values Across Generations When Henry Met Franklin "I'm Fighting for Freedom" Coleman Young, HUAC, and the Detroit Black Community "From the Top Down or from the Bottom Up?" John F. Kennedy, Executive Order 10988, and the Rise of Public Employee Unionism Jimmy Carter and the UAW Failure of an Alliance Arkansas and the Defeat of Labor Law Reform in 1978 and 1994 The Crisis of the Labor Movement in the United States and the Search for a New Vision in Domestic and Foreign Affairs Gore or Nader? Progressives, Radicals, Labor, and the 2000 Election Conclusion Bibliography
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 30.11.2003 |
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Sprache | englisch |
Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung | |
ISBN-10 | 0-313-32471-9 / 0313324719 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-313-32471-0 / 9780313324710 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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