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  • Public Workers in Service of America

    A Reader

    by Eileen Boris, Cathleen D Cahill, William Powell Jones, Amy Zanoni, Jon Shelton, Katherine Turk, Joseph E Slater, Francis Ryan ...
    Series series Working Class in American History
    From white-collar executives to mail carriers, public workers meet the needs of the entire nation. Frederick W. Gooding Jr. and Eric S. Yellin edit a collection of new research on this understudied workforce. Part One begins in the late nineteenth- and early twentieth century to explore how questions of race, class, and gender shaped public workers, their workplaces, and their place in American ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Public Workers

    Government Employee Unions, the Law, and the State, 1900–1962

    by Joseph E. Slater ...
    From the dawn of the twentieth century to the early 1960s, public-sector unions generally had no legal right to strike, bargain, or arbitrate, and government workers could be fired simply for joining a union. Public Workers is the first book to analyze why public-sector labor law evolved as it did, separate from and much more restrictive than private-sector labor law, and what effect this law had ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

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  • Invisible Hands

    The Businessmen's Crusade Against the New Deal

    by Kim Phillips-Fein ...
    “A compelling and readable story of resistance to the new economic order.” —Boston GlobeIn the wake of the profound economic crisis known as the Great Depression, a group of high-powered individuals joined forces to campaign against the New Deal—not just its practical policies but the foundations of its economic philosophy. The titans of the National Association of Manufacturers and the chemicals ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Sweet Land of Liberty

    The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North

    by Thomas J. Sugrue ...
    The struggle for racial equality in the North has been a footnote in most books about civil rights in America. Now this monumental new work from one of the most brilliant historians of his generation sets the record straight. Sweet Land of Liberty is an epic, revelatory account of the abiding quest for justice in states from Illinois to New York, and of how the intense northern struggle differed ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Polarizers

    Postwar Architects of Our Partisan Era

    by Sam Rosenfeld ...
    "Rosenfeld's insightful study of the development of political parties since World War II is highly instructive for our current moment." — Kirkus ReviewsEven in this most partisan and dysfunctional of eras, we can all agree on one thing: Washington is broken. Politicians take increasingly inflexible and extreme positions, leading to gridlock, partisan warfare, and the sense that our seats of ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Battle for Wisconsin

    Scott Walker and the Attack on the Progressive Tradition

    by Andrew E. Kersten ...
    This past January, the newly elected governor Scott Walker declared war on Wisconsin's progressive roots. Under the guise of budget repair, he and his Republican colleagues in the state legislature introduced a whole host of initiatives meant to roll back hard-won gains for workers and recast the role of government in the state to fit his own conservative ideology.In The Battle for Wisconsin, the ... Read more

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  • Rich People's Movements

    Grassroots Campaigns to Untax the One Percent

    by Isaac Martin ...
    Series series Studies in Postwar American Political Development
    On tax day, April 15, 2010, hundreds of thousands of Americans took to the streets with signs demanding lower taxes on the richest one percent. But why? Rich people have plenty of political influence. Why would they need to publicly demonstrate for lower taxes-and why would anyone who wasn't rich join the protest on their behalf? Isaac William Martin shows that such protests long predate the Tea ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Your Children Are Very Greatly in Danger

    School Segregation in Rochester, New York

    by Justin Murphy ...
    In Your Children Are Very Greatly in Danger**, the veteran journalist Justin Murphy argues that Rochester's educational disparities stem from historical and ongoing racial segregation.** Education reform alone cannot resolve racial inequity; cities such as Rochester must first dismantle segregation.Through interviews and documents, Murphy shows how discriminatory policies and personal prejudice ... Read more

    $10.49 USD

  • From the New Deal to the New Right: Race and the Southern Origins of Modern Conservatism

    by Joseph E. Lowndes ...
    The role the South has played in contemporary conservatism is perhaps the most consequential political phenomenon of the second half of the twentieth century. The region’s transition from Democratic stronghold to Republican base has frequently been viewed as a recent occurrence, one that largely stems from a 1960s-era backlash against left-leaning social movements. But as Joseph Lowndes argues in ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

  • The Education Myth

    How Human Capital Trumped Social Democracy

    by Jon Shelton ...
    Series series Histories of American Education
    The Education Myth questions the idea that education represents the best, if not the only, way for Americans to access economic opportunity. As Jon Shelton shows, linking education to economic well-being was not politically inevitable. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, for instance, public education was championed as a way to help citizens learn how to participate in a democracy. By the ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • The Loneliness of the Black Republican

    Pragmatic Politics and the Pursuit of Power

    by Leah Wright Rigueur ...
    Series series Politics and Society in Modern America
    The story of black conservatives in the Republican Party from the New Deal to Ronald ReaganCovering more than four decades of American social and political history, The Loneliness of the Black Republican examines the ideas and actions of black Republican activists, officials, and politicians, from the era of the New Deal to Ronald Reagan's presidential ascent in 1980. Their unique stories reveal ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • A New Deal for Bronzeville

    Housing, Employment, and Civil Rights in Black Chicago, 1935-1955

    by Lionel Kimble Jr ...
    Illinois State Historical Society Certificate of Excellence 2016During the Great Migration of the 1920s and 1930s, southern African Americans flocked to the South Side Chicago community of Bronzeville, the cultural, political, social, and economic hub of African American life in the city, if not the Midwest. The area soon became the epicenter of community activism as working-class African ... Read more

    $13.09 USD