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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Eric Leif DavinPublisher: Lexington Books Imprint: Lexington Books Dimensions: Width: 16.30cm , Height: 3.50cm , Length: 24.00cm Weight: 0.857kg ISBN: 9780739122389ISBN 10: 073912238 Pages: 464 Publication Date: 01 March 2010 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsCh. 1 The Workers' New Deal Ch. 2 The Workers Mobilize Ch. 3 The Sources of Solidarity, 1914-1930 Ch. 4 From Aliens to Americans Ch. 5 Ambiguous Allies Ch. 6 A Choice of Champions Ch. 7 Storming the Bastille, 1930-1934 Ch. 8 The Workers' Real Deal, 1935-1937 Ch. 9 Thermidor, Deadlock, and Consolidation, 1938-1940 Ch. 10 Equality, Solidarity, and A Fair Deal, 1940-1948 Ch. 11 No Retreat, No Surrender, 1949-1960 Ch. 12 All That Is Solid Melts Into Air Ch. 13 The Crucible of FreedomReviewsEric Davin's meticulous examination of sources, especially his use of contemporary material, as well as his linking of seemingly disparate trends, makes Crucible of Freedom a must read, not only for those who wish to understand the New Deal in the 1930s in the United States, but also the nature of American society today. -- Michael Goldfield Based on extensive scholarship and archival evidence, this excellent study examines 'how and why common working people mobilized in the 1930s to create a more egalitarian America.' Davin (Univ. of Pittsburgh) revises the 'failure' of the New Deal by arguing that its limitations and successes should be attributed to the ethnic working class who created it. In Pittsburgh and surrounding towns in the heartland, readers come to know ordinary people's 'hearts and minds' and potent class-consciousness through an impressive use of oral histories. When they demanded respect and to be counted as citizens, they achieved a 'workers' democracy,' political equality, material gains, and opportunity for economic advancement. The region's political arena is interwoven with events and trends occurring in the state and nation to help readers understand the modern liberal order's founding. For the 1940s and 1950s, Davin challenges the designations of business unionism, corporate liberalism, the 'barren marriage' of the Democratic party and the labor movement, and labor's own anti-communism, with consistent attention paid to the grassroots. Necessary for 20th-century US history collections; essential for labor and political history. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Choice This book makes a major contribution to the understanding of labor history in the United States. Focusing on steelworkers in Pittsburgh between 1914 and 1960, Eric Leif Davin has much to say that will strike chords among New Deal labor historians. Davin makes a strong case for the salience of class and class consciousness for understanding the transformation of labor relations and politics during the New Deal era, and he does a good job placing this regional study within a broader national framework. His work speaks to all historians interested in the twentieth-century United States!. Davin has crafted an important account of working-class agency in the New Deal era that reminds us of what was truly radical and empowering about that period. -- Dublin, Thomas Journal Of American History Eric Davin's meticulous examination of sources, especially his use of contemporary material, as well as his linking of seemingly disparate trends, makes Crucible of Freedom a must read, not only for those who wish to understand the New Deal in the 1930s in the United States, but also the nature of American society today.--Michael Goldfield Author InformationEric Leif Davin is professor of history at the University of Pittsburgh, winner of the Eugene V. Debs Foundation's Bryant Spann Memorial Prize in Literature for his historical writing, and author of Partners in Wonder: Women and the Birth of Science Fiction, 1926-1965. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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