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050 00 $aHD6515.A82$bI5733 1995
082 00 $a327/.2$220
100 1 $aBoyle, Kevin,$d1960-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n95050702
245 14 $aThe UAW and the heyday of American liberalism, 1945-1968 /$cKevin Boyle.
260 $aIthaca, NY :$bCornell University Press,$c[1995], ©1995.
263 $a9511
300 $axiv, 338 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 $aCurrent political observers castigate organized labor as more interested in winning generous contracts for workers than in fighting for social change. The UAW and the Heyday of American Liberalism offers a compelling reassessment of labor's place in American politics in the post-World War II era.
520 8 $aThe United Automobile Workers, Kevin Boyle demonstrates, was deeply involved in the pivotal political struggles of those years, from the fight for full employment to the battle for civil rights, from the anticommunist crusade to the war on poverty.
520 8 $aThe UAW engaged in these struggles in an attempt to build a cross-class, multiracial reform coalition that would push American politics beyond liberalism and toward social democracy. The effort was in vain; forced to work within political structures - particularly the postwar Democratic party - that militated against change, the union was unable to fashion the alliance it sought.
520 8 $aThe UAW's political activism nevertheless suggests a new understanding of labor's place in postwar American politics and of the complex forces that defined liberalism in that period. The book also supplies the first detailed discussion of the impact of the Vietnam War on a major American union and shatters the popular image of organized labor as being hawkish on the war.
520 8 $a. Engrossing and richly developed, The UAW and the Heyday of American Liberalism draws on extensive research in the records of the UAW and in papers of leading liberals, including Martin Luther King Jr., Harry Truman, John Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Hubert Humphrey, and Adlai Stevenson.
610 20 $aInternational Union, United Automobile, Aerospace, and Agricultural Implement Workers of America$xPolitical activity$xHistory.
650 0 $aAutomobile industry workers$xLabor unions$xPolitical activity$zUnited States$xHistory.
651 0 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$y1945-1989.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140467
650 0 $aLiberalism$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008106861
653 0 $aUAW history.
852 00 $bglx$hHD6515.A82$iI5733 1995