Labor Visions and State Power: The Origins of Business Unionism in the United States

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Labor Visions and State Power: The Origins of Business Unionism in the United States
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Victoria C. Hattam
SeriesPrinceton Legacy Library
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:280
Dimensions(mm): Height 229,Width 152
ISBN/Barcode 9780691600086
ClassificationsDewey:322.20973
Audience
Tertiary Education (US: College)
Professional & Vocational

Publishing Details

Publisher Princeton University Press
Imprint Princeton University Press
Publication Date 14 July 2014
Publication Country United States

Description

Why has labor played a more limited role in national politics in the United States than it has in other advanced industrial societies? Victoria Hattam demonstrates that voluntarism, as American labor's policy was known, was the American Federation of Labor's strategic response to the structure of the American state, particularly to the influence of

Reviews

"[An interpretation] that will significantly restructure debate about the state, political culture, and working-class formation for some time to come."-William H. Sewell, Jr., The University of Chicago "A remarkably original interpretation of American labor history that places labor's struggles in the broad context of American political and legal developments."-Morton J. Horwitz, Harvard Law School