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Fragile Alliances - Labor and Politics in Evansville, Indiana, 1919-1955 (Hardcover)
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Fragile Alliances - Labor and Politics in Evansville, Indiana, 1919-1955 (Hardcover)
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How did the alliance between labor and the Democratic Party develop
after the First World War? What role does Evansville play in an
examination of this alliance? What was the impact of the alliance
on U.S politics and society? These are some of the questions that
Samuel W. White tackles in his book Fragile Alliances: Labor and
Politics in Evansville, Indiana, 1919-1955. Focusing on Evansville,
Indiana, as a case study, White challenges traditional assumptions
in the field, such as the following: labor has one political voice;
labor is monolithic in electoral politics; the New Deal
successfully reordered American society and politics. White
examines the roles played by political repression, opposition by
employers, and anticommunist forces within the community as well as
the labor movement in undermining the labor-Democratic Party
alliance in Evansville. He contends that by the 1950s, the impact
of these forces blunted the potential of the labor movement and the
Democratic Party to transform the political system by giving
workers and their allies a permanent political space in electoral
politics. How did the alliance between labor and the Democratic
Party develop after the First World War? What role does Evansville
play in an examination of this alliance? What was the impact of the
alliance on U.S politics and society? These are some of the
questions that White tackles in his book Fragile Alliances: Labor
and Politics in Evansville, Indiana, 1919-1955. Focusing on
Evansville, Indiana, as a case study, White challenges traditional
assumptions in the field, such as the following: labor has one
political voice; labor is monolithic in electoral politics; the New
Deal successfully reordered American society and politics. White
examines the roles played by political repression, opposition by
employers, and anticommunist forces within the community as well as
the labor movement in undermining the labor-Democratic Party
alliance in Evansville. He contends that by the 1950s, the impact
of these forces blunted the potential of the labor movement and the
Democratic Party to transform the political system by giving
workers and their allies a permanent political space in electoral
politics. Much of the published literature on labor and politics in
the U.S. is focused on national events and organizations that make
labor appear as a monolith in electoral politics. White diverges
from the national focus of the majority of this literature, instead
looking at labor and politics at the local level. While much of the
published literature argues that the alliance between labor and the
Democratic Party in the 1930s was a formidable force that reordered
American society and politics, White shows that in Evansville, the
alliance was anything but that. Racked by political repression,
opposition by employers, and anticommunist forces within the
community and the labor movement itself, the alliance was
remarkably fragile and incapable of sustaining the momentum it had
established in the 1930s.
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