Informative and original, Labor's Struggles, 1945-1950 contains information and insights that must be included in any subsequent efforts to interpret this period in labor history. The author based this account largely on his own experience as legislative representative for the United Auto Workers-CIO from 1943 to 1947, as well as on documents and conversations from that period, supplemented with historical research. This study of policy-making in union headquarters and in Washington centers on the 1945 splits within the CIO as well as the sharp division between the "social" CIO and the "opportunist" AFL. In addition, it focuses on the Labor Management (Taft-Hartley) Act of 1947 that divided an already fragmented movement.
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"Richter's book points to issues that scholars have just begun to wrestle with: the relationship between labor and the state and the role of labor law in American society. From his privileged position as a UAW senior staffer he offers us a unique vantage point to the internal warfare within the UAW and CIO and a starting point for future research." Richard A. Greenwald, Labor History
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This book skillfully combines autobiography and scholarly analysis to provide the reader with information available from no other source. Informative and original in its approach, the insights this book provides must be included in any subsequent efforts to interpret this period of labour history.
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affidavit signing, basic labor law, mechanical majority, international executive board, noncommunist affidavit, postwar strike wave, great strike wave, new labor law, existing labor law, general wage increase, packinghouse workers, railroad brotherhoods, auto union, conference bill, international president, loyalty order, labor body Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Wagner Act, New Deal, United States, New York, Communist Party, World War, Department of Labor, Philip Murray, Walter Reuther, National Association of Manufacturers, American Federation of Labor, West Allis, President Truman, White House, Chamber of Commerce, General Motors, Phil Murray, Taft-Hartley Act, Allis-Chalmers Company, George Meany, Management-Labor Charter, National Labor Relations Board, Cold War, Democratic Party, William Green New!
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Wagner Act, New Deal, United States, New York, Communist Party, World War, Department of Labor, Philip Murray, Walter Reuther, National Association of Manufacturers, American Federation of Labor, West Allis, President Truman, White House, Chamber of Commerce, General Motors, Phil Murray, Taft-Hartley Act, Allis-Chalmers Company, George Meany, Management-Labor Charter, National Labor Relations Board, Cold War, Democratic Party, William Green New!
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- The Communist Party and the Auto Workers Unions by Roger Keeran on 4 pages
- Political Purpose in Trade Unions by Irving Richter on 4 pages
- Workers in Industrial America: Essays on the Twentieth Century Struggle by David Brody in Front Matter, page 90, and page 94
- The Great Fear: The Anti-Communist Purge Under Truman and Eisenhower by David Caute on page 76, page 129, and Back Matter
- The Free Society by Lansing Pollock on page 1, and page 18
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- Civil Rights Unionism: Tobacco Workers and the Struggle for Democracy in the Mid-Twentieth-Century South by Robert Rodgers Korstad in Back Matter
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