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Der häufig beschworene Wählerumschwung bei der Wahl von Trump hatte seine Wurzeln nicht in einem globalen Trend zur Anti-Politik oder einem plötzlichen Rechtsruck, wie oft behauptet. Vielmehr ist der Umschwung auf einen Transformationsprozess zurückzuführen, der in den USA bereits schon vor Jahrzehnten eingesetzt hat - Ende der 1960er Jahre.
Leon Fink examines key cases of progressive influence on postwar U.S. foreign policy, tracing the tension between liberal aspirations and the political realities that stymie them. A diplomatic history that emphasizes the roles of class, labor, race, and grassroots activism, this book suggests new directions for progressive foreign policy.
Seeking to historicize today's "Great Recession," this volume includes essays that uses examples from North America, South America, Europe, Asia, and Australia to situate the current economic crisis and its impact on workers in the context of previous abrupt shifts in the modern-day capitalist marketplace.
Presenting a new twist on classic themes of American economic and working-class history, The Long Gilded Age considers the interlocking roles of politics, labor, and internationalism in the ideologies and institutions that emerged at the turn of the twentieth century.
Sweatshops at Sea: Merchant Seamen in the World's First Globalized Industry, from 1812 to the Present
The arrival of several hundred Guatemalan-born workers in a Morganton, North Carolina poultry plant sets the stage for this story of human struggle in an age of globalization. The author follows what happened when concerns about fairness and safety sparked a strike and an unlikely coalition.
The long-standing dilemma for the progressive intellectual, how to bridge the world of educated opinion and that of the working masses, is the focus of Leon Fink's penetrating book, the first social history of the progressive thinker caught in the middle of American political culture.
The inaugural issue of Labor offers an example of what readers can expect to find on a regular basis-full coverage of new trends in labor history.
Focusing on the operation and influence of the Knights of Labor-the leading labor organization of the nineteenth century-Workingmen's Democracy explores the dreams, achievements, and failures of a movement that sought to renew the democratic potential of American institutions. Runner-up in both the John H. Dunning Prize and Albert J. Beveridge Award competitions
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