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- A Contest of Ideas: Capital, Politics and Labor
- Book
- 2012
- Published by: University of Illinois Press
- Series: The Working Class in American History
summary
For more than thirty years Nelson Lichtenstein has deployed his scholarship--on labor, politics, and social thought--to chart the history and prospects of a progressive America. A Contest of Ideas collects and updates many of Lichtenstein's most provocative and controversial essays and reviews.
These incisive writings link the fate of the labor movement to the transformations in the shape of world capitalism, to the rise of the civil rights movement, and to the activists and intellectuals who have played such important roles. Tracing broad patterns of political thought, Lichtenstein offers important perspectives on the relationship of labor and the state, the tensions that sometimes exist between a culture of rights and the idea of solidarity, and the rise of conservatism in politics, law, and intellectual life. The volume closes with portraits of five activist intellectuals whose work has been vital to the conflicts that engage the labor movement, public policy, and political culture.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page
- p. 4
- Acknowledgments
- pp. ix-x
- Introduction
- pp. 1-12
- Part III. The Rights Revolution
- pp. 107-108
- Part IV. The Specter on the Right
- pp. 155-156
- Chapter 13. Did 1968 Change History?
- pp. 185-196
- Part V. Intellectuals and Their Ideas
- pp. 207-208
- Chapter 15. C. Wright Mills
- pp. 209-221
- Chapter 16. Harvey Swados
- pp. 222-229
- Chapter 17. B. J. Widick
- pp. 230-234
- Chapter 18. Jay Lovestone
- pp. 235-241
- Chapter 19. Herbert Hill
- pp. 242-248
- Chapter 20. Do Graduate Students Work?
- pp. 249-253
Additional Information
ISBN
9780252095122
Related ISBN(s)
9780252037856, 9780252079405
MARC Record
OCLC
864551325
Pages
336
Launched on MUSE
2013-11-04
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2013