This study explores the political evolution of the U.S. labor movement, focusing on its dominant organization, the American Federation of Labor, during a key period (1881 to 1917) of transformation in U.S. political history. Julie Greene documents the AFL's entrance into electoral politics and the emergence of the important alliance between the AFL and the Democratic party, explaining the causes and impact of these developments.
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"Pure and Simple Politics is quite simply the definitive study of AFL politics in the Gompers era. Greene's subtle and compelling narrative portrays a labor politics never completely shorn of its anti-party roots, a beleaguered federation forced to disguise its partisan political influence, and an official political ideology that remains persistently anti-statist, even as its constituency and its adopted Democratic party embrace the progressive state. This work signals new and serious attention by historians to the national political presence of organized labor in the Progressive era." Shelton Stromquist, University of Iowa
"Julie Greene's wonderfully textured portrait of Progressive era politics transforms our understanding of the 'labor question' during the years when that issue stood near the center of American party politics. By skillfully deconstructing the AFL's 'pure and simple' electoral strategy, Greene uncovers a world of hidden strife, unexpected complexity, and lasting consequences. This is a book that every student of American political culture needs to read." Nelson Lichtenstein, University of Virginia
"...readers will find this study valuable as a background for understanding the great CIO drives of the 1930's." Brian O'Donnell, S.J., Michigan Historical Review
"...makes a notable contribution to the collective project of understanding America's peculiar labor politics." Gerald Friedman, The Journal of American History
"Pure and Simple Politics defies recent historical research that look for a single cause for the AFL's political strategies. Greene's depth of research enables her to incorporate a multitude of the factors, both internal and external, that shaped labor's inability to exert the sort of influence that many scholars would have preferred. Anyone interested in obtaining a more complete picture of labor's participation in Progressive Era politics would do well to begin here." Labor Studies Journal
"Julie Greene's wonderfully textured portrait of Progressive era politics transforms our understanding of the 'labor question' during the years when that issue stood near the center of American party politics. By skillfully deconstructing the AFL's 'pure and simple' electoral strategy, Greene uncovers a world of hidden strife, unexpected complexity, and lasting consequences. This is a book that every student of American political culture needs to read." Nelson Lichtenstein, University of Virginia
"...readers will find this study valuable as a background for understanding the great CIO drives of the 1930's." Brian O'Donnell, S.J., Michigan Historical Review
"...makes a notable contribution to the collective project of understanding America's peculiar labor politics." Gerald Friedman, The Journal of American History
"Pure and Simple Politics defies recent historical research that look for a single cause for the AFL's political strategies. Greene's depth of research enables her to incorporate a multitude of the factors, both internal and external, that shaped labor's inability to exert the sort of influence that many scholars would have preferred. Anyone interested in obtaining a more complete picture of labor's participation in Progressive Era politics would do well to begin here." Labor Studies Journal
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This study explores the political evolution of the U.S. labor movement, focusing on its dominant organization, the American Federation of Labor, during a key period (1881 to 1917) of transformation in U.S. political history. Julie Greene documents the AFL's entrance into electoral politics and the emergence of the important alliance between the AFL and the Democratic party, explaining the causes and impact of these developments.
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In early December of 1886, thirty-eight trade unionists converged on Druids' Hall in Columbus, Ohio, hoping to create a new nationwide labor federation. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
labor congressmen, injunction reform, salaried organizers, independent labor politics, pure and simple politics, nonpartisan strategy, antipolitical doctrine, central labor unions, partisan culture, structural ironworkers, campaign program, party slavery, labor vote, judicial hostility, labor campaign, local federations, labor injunction, independent labor party, craft consciousness, full dinner pail, open shop drive, questioning candidates, shop employers, simple leaders, volunteer organizers Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Samuel Gompers, United States, Morrison Letterbooks, Executive Council, Frank Morrison, American Federation of Labor, Woodrow Wilson, William Jennings Bryan, Grant Hamilton, John Lennon, American Federationist, Walsh Papers, Frank Walsh, Gompers Papers, Joseph Cannon, New Jersey, Theodore Roosevelt, House of Representatives, University of Illinois Press, President Wilson, Supreme Court, Gompers Letterbooks, Knights of Labor, Gilded Age New!
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In early December of 1886, thirty-eight trade unionists converged on Druids' Hall in Columbus, Ohio, hoping to create a new nationwide labor federation. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
labor congressmen, injunction reform, salaried organizers, independent labor politics, pure and simple politics, nonpartisan strategy, antipolitical doctrine, central labor unions, partisan culture, structural ironworkers, campaign program, party slavery, labor vote, judicial hostility, labor campaign, local federations, labor injunction, independent labor party, craft consciousness, full dinner pail, open shop drive, questioning candidates, shop employers, simple leaders, volunteer organizers Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Samuel Gompers, United States, Morrison Letterbooks, Executive Council, Frank Morrison, American Federation of Labor, Woodrow Wilson, William Jennings Bryan, Grant Hamilton, John Lennon, American Federationist, Walsh Papers, Frank Walsh, Gompers Papers, Joseph Cannon, New Jersey, Theodore Roosevelt, House of Representatives, University of Illinois Press, President Wilson, Supreme Court, Gompers Letterbooks, Knights of Labor, Gilded Age New!
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- The Fall of the House of Labor: The Workplace, the State, and American Labor Activism, 1865-1925 by David Montgomery on 8 pages
- The Presidential Election of 1916 by S. D. Lovell on 6 pages
- The U.S. Supreme Court: The First Hundred Years by R.R. Sherman on 5 pages
- The Party of Reform: Democrats in the Progressive Era (Twentieth-Century America) by David Sarasohn on 5 pages
- Protecting Soldiers and Mothers: The Political Origins of Social Policy in United States by Theda Skocpol on 5 pages
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- The Racketeer's Progress: Chicago and the Struggle for the Modern American Economy, 1900-1940 (Cambridge Historical Studies in American Law and Society) by Andrew Wender Cohen in Front Matter, and page 60
- Congress, Progressive Reform, and the New American State by Robert Harrison on page 8, and page 98
- A Companion to 20th-Century America (Blackwell Companions to American History) by Stephen J. Whitfield on page 265, and Back Matter
- American Workers, American Unions: The Twentieth Century (The American Moment) by Robert H. Zieger in Back Matter
- The Wages of Sickness: The Politics of Health Insurance in Progressive America (Studies in Social Medicine) by Beatrix Hoffman in Back Matter
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