Old Labor And New Immigrants In American Political Development
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Author |
: Gwendolyn Mink |
Publisher |
: Cornell University Press |
Total Pages |
: 312 |
Release |
: 2019-06-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781501742699 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1501742698 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (99 Downloads) |
Synopsis Old Labor and New Immigrants in American Political Development by : Gwendolyn Mink
Why have American politics developed differently from politics in Europe? Generations of scholars and commentators have wondered why organized labor in the United States did not acquire a broad-based constituency or form an autonomous labor party. In this innovative and insightful book, Gwendolyn Mink finds new answers by approaching this question from a different angle: she asks what determined union labor's political interests and how those interests influenced the political role forged by the American Federation of Labor. At bottom, Mink argues, the demographic dynamics of industrialization produced a profound racial response to economic change among organized labor. This response shaped the AFL's political strategy and political choices. In her account of the unique role played by labor in politics prior to the New Deal, Mink focuses on the ways in which the organizational and political interests of the AFL were mediated by the national issue of immigration and links the AFL's response to immigration to its conservative stance in and toward politics. She investigates the political impact of a labor market split between union and nonunion, old and new immigrant workers; of dramatic demographic change; and of nativism and racism. Mink then elucidates the development of trade-union political interests, ideology, and strategy; the movement of the AFL into established state and party structures; and the consequent separation of the AFL from labor's social base.
Author |
: Alexander Saxton |
Publisher |
: Univ of California Press |
Total Pages |
: 316 |
Release |
: 1995 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0520029054 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780520029057 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (54 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Indispensable Enemy by : Alexander Saxton
The purpose of this study is to examine the Chinese confrontation, on the Pacific Coast, as it was experienced and rationalized by the white majority. For reasons which will be evident in what follows, the main body of the work (chapters 3 through 11) will focus on the Democratic party and the labor movement of California through the forty-year period after the Civil War. The two opening chapters turn back to explore aspects of the Jacksonian background which appear crucial to an understanding of what occurred in California. The final chapter looks beyond the turn of the century to trace certain results of the sequence of events in the West for the labor movement as a whole, and to suggest the influence of those events upon the crystallization of an American concept of national identity.
Author |
: Gwendolyn Mink |
Publisher |
: Cornell University Press |
Total Pages |
: 214 |
Release |
: 1995 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0801495342 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780801495342 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (42 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Wages of Motherhood by : Gwendolyn Mink
Entering the vigorous debate about the nature of the American welfare state, The Wages of Motherhood illuminates ways in which a "maternalist" social policy emerged from the crucible of gender and racial politics between the world wars. Gwendolyn Mink here examines the cultural dynamics of maternalist social policy, which have often been overlooked by institutional and class analyses of the welfare state. Mink maintains that the movement for welfare provisions, while resulting in important gains, reinforced existing patterns of gender and racial inequality. She explores how AngloAmerican women reformers, as they gained increasing political recognition, promoted an ideology of domesticity that became the core of maternalist social policy. Focusing on reformers such as Jane Addams, Grace Abbott, Katherine Lenroot, and Frances Perkins, Mink shows how they helped shape a social policy premised on moral character and cultural conformity rather than universal entitlement. According to Mink, commitments to a gendered and racialized ideology of virtuous citizenship led women's reform organizations in the United States to support welfare policies that were designed to uplift and regulate motherhood and thus to reform the cultural character of citizens. The upshot was a welfare agenda that linked maternity with dependency, poverty with cultural weakness, and need with moral failing. Relegating poor women and racial minorities to dependent status, maternalist policy had the effect of stengthening ideological and institutional forms of subordination. In Mink's view, the legacy of this benevolent--and invidious--policy contimies to inflect thinking about welfare reform today.
Author |
: Joseph E. Lowndes |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 361 |
Release |
: 2012-11-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781136086427 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1136086420 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (27 Downloads) |
Synopsis Race and American Political Development by : Joseph E. Lowndes
Race has been present at every critical moment in American political development, shaping political institutions, political discourse, public policy, and its denizens’ political identities. But because of the nature of race—its evolving and dynamic status as a structure of inequality, a political organizing principle, an ideology, and a system of power—we must study the politics of race historically, institutionally, and discursively. Covering more than three hundred years of American political history from the founding to the contemporary moment, the contributors in this volume make this extended argument. Together, they provide an understanding of American politics that challenges our conventional disciplinary tools of studying politics and our conservative political moment’s dominant narrative of racial progress. This volume, the first to collect essays on the role of race in American political history and development, resituates race in American politics as an issue for sustained and broadened critical attention.
Author |
: Kathleen R. Arnold |
Publisher |
: Penn State Press |
Total Pages |
: 258 |
Release |
: 2015-08-26 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780271048994 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0271048999 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (94 Downloads) |
Synopsis America's New Working Class by : Kathleen R. Arnold
Today’s political controversy over immigration highlights the plight of the working class in this country as perhaps no other issue has recently done. The political status of immigrants exposes the power dynamics of the “new working class,” which includes the former labor aristocracy, women, and people of color. This new working class suffers exploitation in advanced industrial countries as the social cost of capitalism’s success in a neoliberal and globalized political economy. Paradoxically, as borders become more open, they are also increasingly fortified, subjecting many workers to the suspension of law. In this book, Kathleen Arnold analyzes the role of the state’s “prerogative power” in creating and sustaining this condition of severe inequality for the most marginalized sectors of our population in the United States. Drawing on a wide range of theoretical literature from Locke to Marx and Agamben (whose notion of “bare life” features prominently in her construal of this as a “biopolitical” era), she focuses attention especially on the values of asceticism derived from the Protestant work ethic to explain how they function as ideological justification for the exercise of prerogative power by the state. As a counter to this repressive set of values, she develops the notion of “authentic love” borrowed from Simone de Beauvoir as a possible approach for dealing with the complex issues of exploitation in liberal democracy today.
Author |
: Michael Kazin |
Publisher |
: Princeton University Press |
Total Pages |
: 658 |
Release |
: 2011-08-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780691152073 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0691152071 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (73 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Concise Princeton Encyclopedia of American Political History by : Michael Kazin
Contains 150 articles that provide information about significant topics in American political history, including ideas, philosophies, movements, economics, religion, and more.
Author |
: Mark Twain |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 380 |
Release |
: 1904 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015049835963 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (63 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Gilded Age by : Mark Twain
Author |
: Willie Gin |
Publisher |
: Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages |
: 233 |
Release |
: 2017-07-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781351981859 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1351981854 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (59 Downloads) |
Synopsis Minorities and Reconstructive Coalitions by : Willie Gin
Through comparative and historical analysis, the book shows that reconstructive coalitions, such as labor and pan-Christian moral movements, affect minority incorporation and bring Catholics and Protestants together under new identities and significantly improving Catholic standing. It provides overviews of the history of Catholics in Australia, Canada, and the United States while at the same time advancing unique arguments about the impact of coalitions on minority politics.
Author |
: Fawn-Amber Montoya |
Publisher |
: University Press of Colorado |
Total Pages |
: 232 |
Release |
: 2014-09-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781607323105 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1607323109 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (05 Downloads) |
Synopsis Making an American Workforce by : Fawn-Amber Montoya
Taking an interdisciplinary approach to the policies of the early years of the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company, Making an American Workforce explores John D. Rockefeller Jr.'s welfare capitalist programs and their effects on the company's diverse workforce. Focusing on the workers themselves—men, women, and children representative of a variety of immigrant and ethnic groups—contributors trace the emergence of the Employee Representation Plan, the work of the company's Sociology Department, and CF&I's interactions with the YMCA in the early twentieth century. They examine CF&I's early commitment to Americanize its immigrant employees and shape worker behavior, the development of policies that constructed the workforce it envisioned while simultaneously laying the groundwork for the strike that eventually led to the Ludlow Massacre, and the impact of the massacre on the employees, the company, and beyond. Making an American Workforce provides greater insight into the repercussions of the Industrial Representation Plan and the Ludlow Massacre, revealing the long-term consequences of Colorado Fuel and Iron Company policies on the American worker, the state of Colorado, and the creation of corporate culture. Making an American Workforce will be of interest to Western, labor, and business historians.
Author |
: John T. Bookman |
Publisher |
: Potomac Books, Inc. |
Total Pages |
: 221 |
Release |
: 2008-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781597971980 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1597971987 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (80 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Mythology of American Politics by : John T. Bookman
Demystifies some of the most pervasive myths about American politics