The UAW and the Heydey of American Liberalism, 1945-1968

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Kevin Boyle has done a masterful job of identifying the unique contribution of the UAW, not only to American Liberalism, but also to the nation and to all people. As contemporary labor and society at large search for new directions, this book should be required reading. -Victor G. Reuther

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Kevin Boyle has done a masterful job of identifying the unique contribution of the UAW, not only to American Liberalism, but also to the nation and to all people. As contemporary labor and society at large search for new directions, this book should be required reading. -Victor G. Reuther

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 360
Edition: Reprint
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 30 Apr 1998
ISBN 10: 080148538X
ISBN 13: 9780801485381
Book Overview: A Choice magazine Outstanding Academic Book for 1996

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One of the many virtues of Kevin Boyle's brilliant and important history, The UAW and the Heyday of American Liberalism, is that it provides a clear picture of the road not taken. -The American Prospect
Intelligent, well written, and exhaustively researched, . . . Boyle's work . . . is part of an important and increasingly favorable reevaluation of the character of late New Deal social democracy. -Journal of American History
Boyle's book presents, with a remarkably assured tone and a mastery of materials, a persuasive narrative of the shortcomings of postwar liberalism from the labor perspective that was so important then and is so often ignored today. -American Political Science Review
This book constitutes a compelling argument that throughout the immediate post-war decades, the union's leadership under Reuther attempted to construct a cross-class, biracial reform coalition in the United States. . . . The role and influence of institutions in the making of history is surely an argument that labour historians ignore at their own peril. Post-war United States labour historical scholarship has been surely enriched by Boyle pointing that out in such a compelling fashion. -Harry Knowles, University of Sydney. The Journal of Industrial Relations. September, 2000.