San Antonio College Library

Examines the history of the labor movement in the United States from the nineteenth century through the early twenty-first century.

Revival of Labor Liberalism is a careful analysis of the twentieth-century decline of unions and liberals and the important efforts to revive their political fortunes. The break in the labor-liberal coalition in the late 1960s paved the way for an ascendant Republican Party and linked business and conservative interests bent on revising earlier policies implemented by the New Deal and the Great Society. Divided by politics and new social movements...

"Michael Zweig shows that the majority of Americans are actually working class and argues that recognizing this fact is essential if that majority is to achieve political influence and social strength. "Class," Zweig writes, "is primarily a matter of power, not income." He goes beyond old formulations of class to explore ways in which class interacts with race and gender." "Believing that we must limit the power of capitalists to abuse workers, communities,...

Matthew Hild shows that the Populist (or People's) Party, the most important third party of the 1890s, established itself most solidly in Texas, Alabama, and under the guise of the earlier Union Labor Party in Arkansas, where farmer-labour political coalitions from the 1870s to mid-1880s had laid the groundwork for populism's expansion.