Confronting American labor : the New Left dilemma / / Jeffrey W. Coker.

• Author: ProQuest (Firm); Coker, Jeffrey W.
• TeilnehmendeR: ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2002
• Language: English
• Physical Description: xiv, 211 p.

Table of Contents

• Labor and the search for American socialism
• The exceptionalism of American labor
• The intellectual's role in the workers' movement
• Abandonment of the "labor metaphysic"
• The promise of insurgent labor
• New lefts, new insurgents
• The new labor history and the revival of the proletariat
• The historian's search for power.