The Unions and the Democrats : : An Enduring Alliance /

The Unions and the Democrats : : An Enduring Alliance / / Taylor E. Dark.

Although labor unions have faced a decline in membership in recent decades, they have not necessarily lost their political clout. The Unions and the Democrats illuminates the inner dynamics of labor's relationship to the American political system over the past generation. It examines organized...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
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Dark, Taylor E.,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]
©2001
Year of Publication:2018
Edition:Updated Edition
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (272 p.) :; 4 tables
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface to the Cornell Paperbacks Edition
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: The Continuing Significance of Labor Politics
  • Part One. BEYOND THE IMAGE OF DECLINE
  • 1. The Debate about Decline
  • 2. Labor Unions and Political Bargaining
  • Part Two. UNIONS IN THE WASHINGTON POWER GAME
  • 3. Labor and the Johnson Administration: The Limits of Cooperation
  • 4. Crises of Representation, I968-I976
  • 5. Labor and the Carter Administration: The Origins of Conflict
  • 6. The Union Strategy to Regain the Presidency
  • 7. Labor and the Congressional Democrats
  • 8. The Clinton Administration: The Legacy of the Past
  • Conclusion: Organized Labor at the End of the Twentieth Century
  • Postscript: Labor Approaches the Post-Clinton Era
  • Notes
  • Index

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