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• catalog abstract "Current 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. The 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. The 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. The 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. 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.".
• catalog contributor b8269993.
• catalog coverage "United States Politics and government 1945-1989.".
• catalog created "1995.".
• catalog date "1995".
• catalog date "1995.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "1995.".
• catalog description "Current 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. The 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.".
• catalog description "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.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
• catalog description "Introduction: Politics and principle -- 1. Building the vanguard --2. Craven politics -- 3. The vital center shifts -- 4. The pull of consensus -- 5. The crucible of race -- 6. Something less than perfect -- 7. The coalition of conscience -- 8. Building the great society -- 9. The widening gyre -- 10. Things fall apart -- Epilogue: The limits of liberalism.".
• catalog description "The 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. The 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.".
• catalog extent "xiii, 338 p. ;".
• catalog hasFormat "UAW and the heyday of American liberalism, 1945-1968.".
• catalog identifier "080143064X (alk. paper)".
• catalog isFormatOf "UAW and the heyday of American liberalism, 1945-1968.".
• catalog issued "1995".
• catalog issued "1995.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press,".
• catalog relation "UAW and the heyday of American liberalism, 1945-1968.".
• catalog spatial "United States Politics and government 1945-1989.".
• catalog spatial "United States".
• catalog subject "327/.2 20".
• catalog subject "Automobile industry workers Labor unions Political activity United States History.".
• catalog subject "Automobile industry workers Labor unions United States Political activity History.".
• catalog subject "HD6515.A82 I5733 1995".
• catalog subject "International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace, and Agricultural Implement Workers of America Political activity History.".
• catalog subject "Liberalism United States History 20th century.".
• catalog subject "UAW history.".
• catalog tableOfContents "Introduction: Politics and principle -- 1. Building the vanguard --2. Craven politics -- 3. The vital center shifts -- 4. The pull of consensus -- 5. The crucible of race -- 6. Something less than perfect -- 7. The coalition of conscience -- 8. Building the great society -- 9. The widening gyre -- 10. Things fall apart -- Epilogue: The limits of liberalism.".
• catalog title "The UAW and the heyday of American liberalism, 1945-1968 / Kevin Boyle.".
• catalog type "History. fast".
• catalog type "text".