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Informationen zum Autor Eric Leif Davin is the author of numerous books, including Crucible of Freedom: Workers' Democracy in the Industrial Heartland, 1914-1960 and Radicals in Power: The New Left Experience in Office, both available from Lexington Books, a division of Rowman & Littlefield. In addition, with Staughton Lynd, he is the author of Picket Line and Ballot Box: The Forgotten Legacy of the Labor Party Movement, 1932-1936. His award-winning history of the 1930s Labor Party movement, "The Very Last Hurrah: The Defeat of the Labor Party Idea, 1934-36," was published in "We Are All Leaders": The Alternative Unionism of the Early 1930s, edited by Staughton Lynd and available from the University of Illinois Press. He has also written three labor history novels, The Great Strike of 1877; The Paterson Strike Pageant: An IWW Novel of Bohemia and Insurgent Labor and Solidarity: An IWW Novel of the Steel City. Klappentext Working people created a new America in the 1930s and 1940s which was a fundamental departure from the feudalistic and hierarchical America which existed before. In the process, class politics re-defined the political agenda of America as-for the first and time in American history-the political universe polarized along class lines. The author explores the meaning of the new deal political mobilization by ordinary people by examining the changes it brought to the local, county, and state levels in Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, and Pennsylvania as a whole. Inhaltsverzeichnis Ch. 1 The Workers' New DealCh. 2 The Workers MobilizeCh. 3 The Sources of Solidarity, 1914-1930Ch. 4 From Aliens to AmericansCh. 5 Ambiguous AlliesCh. 6 A Choice of ChampionsCh. 7 Storming the Bastille, 1930-1934Ch. 8 The Workers' Real Deal, 1935-1937Ch. 9 Thermidor, Deadlock, and Consolidation, 1938-1940Ch. 10 Equality, Solidarity, and A Fair Deal, 1940-1948Ch. 11 No Retreat, No Surrender, 1949-1960Ch. 12 All That Is Solid Melts Into AirCh. 13 The Crucible of Freedom...
