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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      06 November 2009
      29 April 1994
      ISBN:
      9780511572371
      9780521414128
      9780521533263
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511572371
      Dimensions:
      (234 x 156 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.427kg, 176 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.269kg, 176 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Area Studies, American History after 1945, American Studies, American Government, Politics and Policy, History, Politics and International Relations
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    Area Studies, American History after 1945, American Studies, American Government, Politics and Policy, History, Politics and International Relations
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    Neither 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.

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    "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

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