{"product_id":"labors-struggles-1945-1950-a-participants-view-paperback-9780521533263","title":"Labor's Struggles, 1945–1950; A Participant's View (Paperback) 9780521533263","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eLabor's Struggles, 1945–1950\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eA Participant's View\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis book skillfully combines autobiography and scholarly analysis to present original insights into this period of labour history.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eIrving Richter (Author), David Montgomery (Foreword by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521533263, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback, published 13 February 2003\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e176 pages, 13 b\/w illus.\u003cbr\u003e22.8 x 15.3 x 1.8 cm, 0.269 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"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\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eNeither an autobiography nor a scholarly analysis, Labor's Struggles, 1945–1950: A Participant's View is a skilful blend of both genres. Informative and original in its insights and analyses, this book provides the reader with information available from no other source. These insights must be included in any subsequent efforts to interpret this period in labour history. Richter based this account largely on his own experience as legislative representative for the United Auto Workers - C.I.O. 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 focuses on the 1945 splits within the C.I.O. as well as the sharp divisions between the 'social' C.I.O. and the 'opportunistic' A.F.L. In addition, it focuses on the Labour Management (Taft-Hartley) Act of 1947 which divided an already fragmented movement.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction and acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Labour's fragmentation and the industrial relations context in 1945\u003cbr\u003e Searching for coexistence: the management labour charter and the labour management conference\u003cbr\u003e The great strike wave of 1946 and its political consequences\u003cbr\u003e The Taft-Hartley legislative scene\u003cbr\u003e The aftermath of Taft-Hartley\u003cbr\u003e Postlude\u003cbr\u003e Appendix: The Labour Management Relations (Taft-Hartley) Act of 1947\u003cbr\u003e Illustrations.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000 [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Postwar%2020th%20century%20history,%20from%20c%201945%20to%20c%202000%20%5BHBLW3%5D%22\"\u003eHBLW3\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46019791782168,"sku":"9780521533263","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521533263i_96fd4e10-fefa-439f-b103-444b37b38b4e.jpg?v=1691369087","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/labors-struggles-1945-1950-a-participants-view-paperback-9780521533263","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}