When C. Wright Mills published "The New Men of Power" in 1948, he thought labor leaders a new strategic elite and the unions a set of vanguard organizations that were crucial to "stopping the main drift towards war and slump." Today, as the unions once again seek to play a decisive role in American life, Mills' remarkable probe into the structure and ideology of mid-twentieth-century trade unionism remains essential reading. A new introduction by historian Nelson Lichtenstein offers insight into the Millsian political world at the time he wrote "The New Men of Power."
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Praise for the original 1948 edition: "The New Men of Power is a brilliant, original, and provocative work, genuinely democratic and boldly radical in its character... I have not read for a long time any book which in its main bearings casts more valuable light on the tensions of American society or which is more stimulating and fruitful in its challenges to the reader." -- Arthur Schlesinger Jr. "C. Wright Mills has written a book in total opposition to such current inclinations as quietism, ideal-community building, advocacy of "preventive" atomic war, a truce with the right because of fear of Stalinism... We owe him a considerable debt of gratitude for having tried, in a time of depressed silence, to reopen a discussion of politics." -- Irving Howe, Partisan Review Praise for the Illinois paperback edition: "This reissue of a classic in labor sociology, with Nelson Lichtenstein's superb introduction, could hardly be more timely. C. Wright Mills's insights into the dilemmas and dynamics of union leadership are often as relevant today as they were in the late 1940s. And now, more than half a century after this powerful study first appeared, a new generation of unionists is emerging that may yet fulfill Mills's hopes--so deeply disappointed in the years after The New Men of Power first appeared--for labor-centered progressive social change." -- Ruth Milkman, director of the Institute for Labor and Employment, University of California at Los Angeles
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THE AMERICAN labor leader, like the politician and the big businessman, is now a public figure: different groups hold various images of him. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
new labor party, sophisticated conservatives, coming slump, leftist believes, cio leaders, business unionist, many labor leaders, main drift, liberal center, simple unionism, practical conservatives, sophisticated right, practical right, staff intellectuals, independent labor party, union blocs, industrial aristocracy, union careers, national labor leaders, independent leftists, labor racketeer, politically alert, union hierarchy, wartime unity, liberal rhetoric Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New Deal, United States, Democratic Party, Communist Party, New York, Philip Murray, David Dubinsky, Socialist Party, American Labor Party, Republican Party, Samuel Gompers, Walter Reuther, William Green, Against Unity, Business Week, Eastern Europe, Henry Wallace New!
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THE AMERICAN labor leader, like the politician and the big businessman, is now a public figure: different groups hold various images of him. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
new labor party, sophisticated conservatives, coming slump, leftist believes, cio leaders, business unionist, many labor leaders, main drift, liberal center, simple unionism, practical conservatives, sophisticated right, practical right, staff intellectuals, independent labor party, union blocs, industrial aristocracy, union careers, national labor leaders, independent leftists, labor racketeer, politically alert, union hierarchy, wartime unity, liberal rhetoric Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New Deal, United States, Democratic Party, Communist Party, New York, Philip Murray, David Dubinsky, Socialist Party, American Labor Party, Republican Party, Samuel Gompers, Walter Reuther, William Green, Against Unity, Business Week, Eastern Europe, Henry Wallace New!
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- American Labor on page 287, and Back Matter
- Power, Politics, and People: The Collected Essays of C. Wright Mills (Galaxy Books) by C. W. Mills in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- The Power Elite by C. Wright Mills in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- A Theory of the Labor Movement by Selig Perlman in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- The Great Depression - How We Coped, Worked and Played: Life-Experience Stories from the Carolinas' Piedmont (1929-41) by Margaret G. Bigger in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
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- C. Wright Mills: Letters and Autobiographical Writings by C. Wright Mills on 7 pages
- State of the Union: A Century of American Labor (Politics and Society in Twentieth-Century America) by Nelson Lichtenstein on 5 pages
- State of the Union: A Century of American Labor (Politics and Society in Twentieth-Century America) by Nelson Lichtenstein on 5 pages
- C Wright Mills An American Utopian by Irving Lewis Horowitz on 5 pages
- The New Labor Radicalism and New York City's Garment Industry: Progressive Labor Insurgents During the 1960s (Garland Studies in the History of American Labor) by Leigh David Benin in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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