Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
I Shaping Myself, Shaping History 13
1 Writing and Rewriting Labor's Narrative 15
2 Supply-Chain Tourist; or, How Globalization Has Transformed the Labor Question 29
3 Historians as Public Intellectuals 38
II Capital, Labor, and the State 45
4 Tribunes of the Shareholder Class 47
5 "The Man in the Middle": A Social History of Automobile Industry Foremen 56
6 From Corporatism to Collective Bargaining: Organized Labor and the Eclipse of Social Democracy in the Postwar Era 79
7 Communism On the Shop Floor and Off 100
III The Rights Revolution 107
8 Opportunities Found/and Lost: Labor, Radicals, and the Early Civil Rights Movement 109
9 The Lost Promise of the Long Civil Rights Movement 129
10 A New Era of Global Human Rights: Good for the Trade Unions? 144
IV The Specter on the Right 155
11 The United States in the Great Depression: Was the Fascist Door Open? 157
12 Market Triumphalism and the Wishful Liberals 167
13 Did 1968 Change History? 185
14 Bashing Public Employees and Their Unions 197
V Intellectuals and their Ideas 207
15 C. Wright Mills 209
16 Harvey Swados 222
17 B. J. Widick 230
18 Jay Lovestone 235
19 Herbert Hill 242
20 Do Graduate Students Work? 249
21 Why American Unions Need Intellectuals 254
Notes 261
Index 305
