Coker, Jeffrey W.

Confronting American labor the New Left dilemma / [electronic resource] : Jeffrey W. Coker. - Columbia : University of Missouri Press, c2002. - xiv, 211 p.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-201) and index.

Labor and the search for American socialism -- The exceptionalism of American labor -- The intellectual's role in the workers' movement -- Abandonment of the "labor metaphysic" -- The promise of insurgent labor -- New lefts, new insurgents -- The new labor history and the revival of the proletariat -- The historian's search for power.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2016. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.






Labor movement--History.--United States
Socialism--History.--United States
New Left--History.--United States


Electronic books.

HD8072.5 / .C655 2002

331.8/0973