TY  - BOOK
AU  - Schiller,Reuel Edward
TI  - Forging rivals: race, class, law, and the collapse of postwar liberalism 
T2  - Cambridge historical studies in American law and society
SN  - 9781107012264 (hardback)
AV  - HD4903.5.U58 S27 2015
U1  - 331.13/30979409045 23
PY  - 2015///
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Discrimination in employment
KW  - California
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Case studies
KW  - Civil rights movements
KW  - Labor unions
KW  - Labor laws and legislation
KW  - United States
KW  - Liberalism
KW  - HISTORY / United States / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - Race relations
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Machine generated contents note: Introduction. Legal history and the death of postwar liberalism; 1. Forging postwar liberalism; 2. Ed Rainbow's problem; 3. The phony commission; 4. A tale of two propositions; 5. 1966: a terrible year for George Johns; 6. 'The day of the minstrel show is over'; 7. Forging rivals, shattering liberalism
N2  - "The three decades after the end of World War II saw the rise and fall of a particular version of liberalism in which the state committed itself to promoting a modest form of economic egalitarianism while simultaneously embracing ethnic, racial, and religious pluralism. But by the mid-1970s, postwar liberalism was in a shambles: while its commitment to pluralism remained, its economic policies had been abandoned, and the Democratic Party, its primary political vehicle, was collapsing. Schiller attributes this demise to the legal architecture of postwar liberalism, arguing that postwar liberalism's goals of advancing economic egalitarianism and promoting pluralism ultimately conflicted with each other. Through the use of specific historical examples, Schiller demonstrates that postwar liberalism was riddled with legal and institutional contradictions that undermined progressive politics in the mid-twentieth-century United States"--
ER  -