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  • Symposium on Barry Eidlin’s Labor and the Class Idea in the United States and Canada

  • Nelson Lichtenstein, Cedric de Leon, Judith Stepan-Norris, Barry Eidlin
  • Journal:
    Social Science History / Volume 45 / Issue 2 / Summer 2021
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    02 August 2021, p. 417
    Print publication:
    Summer 2021

  • Barry Eidlin’s book, Labor and the Class Idea in the United States and Canada (Cambridge University Press, 2018) explains why unions are weaker in the United States than they are in Canada, but have not always been that way. Indeed, unionization rates were virtually identical for much of the twentieth century, then diverged in the 1960s. Against dominant accounts focused on long-standing differences in political cultures and institutions, Eidlin argues that the divergence resulted from different ruling party responses to working class upsurge in both countries during the Great Depression and World War II. In Canada, an initially more hostile state response ended up embedding “the class idea”—the idea of class as a salient, legitimate political category—more deeply in policies, policies, and practices than in the United States, where class interests were reduced to “special interests.” In this symposium, three noted labor scholars engage critically with the book. Cedric de Leon interrogates Eidlin’s account of the role of racial divisions in explaining divergence, noting “more persistence and convergence than there is rupture and divergence” between these two countries on this issue. Nelson Lichtenstein’s critique focuses on the exceptionally vociferous character of US employer hostility, which he argues that Eidlin downplays. And Judith Stepan-Norris notes the surprising lack of actual class actors in a book about class organization, while raising interpretive questions about the relation between labor and the Communist Party in both countries. Eidlin concludes the symposium with a response to the critics.

  • 24 - Political Parties

  • from IV - Civil Society: The Roots and Processes of Political Action
  • Edited by Thomas Janoski, University of Kentucky, Cedric de Leon, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Joya Misra, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Isaac William Martin, University of California, San Diego
  • Book:
    The New Handbook of Political Sociology
    Published online:
    22 February 2020
    Print publication:
    05 March 2020, pp 646-665

  • Summary

    Political articulation is a new approach, albeit with classical roots, that seeks to bring the study of political parties back into sociology. It is a theory of how the components of the social are stitched together, centering on the role of political parties in the formation of social identities and interests. Though Max Weber, Robert Michels, Paul Lazarsfeld, and Seymour Martin Lipset produced the foundational texts in the field, sociologists from the late 1960s onward ceded party politics to political scientists. To the degree that sociologists studied institutional politics at all, they tended to follow the lead of Lazarsfeld and Lipset, who held that social “cleavages” – or divisions within the electorate such as class, race, and religion – determined the content of party politics (Lazarsfeld, Berelson, and Gaudet 1948 [1944]; Lipset 1960; Lipset and Rokkan 1967).

  • 1 - Power

  • from I - Theories of Political Sociology
  • Edited by Thomas Janoski, University of Kentucky, Cedric de Leon, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Joya Misra, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Isaac William Martin, University of California, San Diego
  • Book:
    The New Handbook of Political Sociology
    Published online:
    22 February 2020
    Print publication:
    05 March 2020, pp 35-52

  • Summary

    If political sociology centers on relations between the state and civil society, then it is fair to say that those relations are now marked increasingly by state repression and racial and ethnic violence. The turn of the twenty-first century witnessed the rapid rise of antiglobalization protests around the world followed by even larger antiwar demonstrations as the United States prepared to invade Iraq. Yet these movements faced intense crackdowns from increasingly militarized police and state security forces. Similarly, the 2010s saw deadly clashes between police forces and authoritarian regimes on the one hand, and popular movements such as the Arab Spring, Occupy, and Black Lives Matter on the other. Ethnic nationalism is now in the ascendant and with it has come a permissive attitude toward official and unofficial violence.

The New Handbook of Political Sociology
  • Edited by Thomas Janoski, Cedric de Leon, Joya Misra, Isaac William Martin
  • Published online:
    22 February 2020
    Print publication:
    05 March 2020
  • Political sociology is a large and expanding field with many new developments, and The New Handbook of Political Sociology supplies the knowledge necessary to keep up with this exciting field. Written by a distinguished group of leading scholars in sociology, this volume provides a survey of this vibrant and growing field in the new millennium. The Handbook presents the field in six parts: theories of political sociology, the information and knowledge explosion, the state and political parties, civil society and citizenship, the varieties of state policies, and globalization and how it affects politics. Covering all subareas of the field with both theoretical orientations and empirical studies, it directly connects scholars with current research in the field. A total reconceptualization of the first edition, the new handbook features nine additional chapters and highlights the impact of the media and big data.

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