Schools of democracy : a political history of the American labor movement /
Clayton Sinyai.
- Ithaca, N.Y. : ILR Press, 2006.
- x, 292 p. ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-282) and index.
Introduction : democracy and the worker, past and present -- Schools of democracy and independence : the labor movement and the democratic republic -- A wooden man? : industrialization, democracy, and civic virtue -- The AFL and progressive politics -- The New Deal and the birth of the CIO -- The New Deal democracy and industrial unionism at flood tide -- The AFL-CIO in the age of organization -- Not a slogan or a fad : labor and the Great Society -- Aftermath : labor and civic education in lean times.