- Zieger , Robert H. 1985 . Toward the History of the CIO: A Bibliographical Report . Labor History , 26 : 485 – 516 . Fall
- An excellent introduction to central themes in what I call the “new institutional” history is The Rise and Fall of the New Deal Order Fraser Steve Gerstle Gary Princeton Univ. Press Princeton 1989
- Gerstle , Gary . 1989 . Working-Class Americanism: The Politics of Labor in a Textile City, 1914–1960 , Cambridge : Cambridge Univ. Press .
- Zieger . Toward the History of the CIO 507 – 507 . n. 42; Karl E. Klare, “Traditional Labor Law Scholarship and the Crisis of Collective Bargaining Law: A Reply to Professor Finkin,” Maryland Law Review 44 (1985), 731–840; Matthew W. Finkin, “Does Karl Klare Protest Too Much?,” ibid, 44 (1985), 1100–10; Karl E. Klare, “Lost Opportunity: Concluding Thoughts on the Finkin Critique,” ibid, 44 (1985), 1111–23; Katherine Van Wezel Stone, “Re-envisioning Labor Law: A Response to Professor Finkin,” ibid, 45 (1986), 978–1013; James B. Atleson, “Reflections on Labor, Power, and Society,” ibid, 45 (1986), 841–72. Christopher L. Tomlins, The State and the Unions: Labor Relations, Law, and the Organized Labor Movement in America, 1880–1960 (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1985).
- Brody , David . 1980 . “ The Uses of Power I: Industrial Battleground ” . In Workers in Industrial America: Essays on the Twentieth Century Struggle , Edited by: Brody . 173 – 214 . New York : Oxford Univ. Press . David Brody, “Workplace Contractualism in America: An Historical/Comparative Analysis,” Howell John Harris and Nelson Lichtenstein, eds., “Industrial Democracy: Past and Present,” forthcoming, Cambridge Univ. Press, 1991; Nelson Lichtenstein, “Life at the Rouge: A Cycle of Workers' Control,” Robert Asher and Charles Stephenson, eds., Life and Labor: Dimensions of American Working-Class History (Albany: SUNY Press, 1986), 237–59, 328–31; Nelson Lichtenstein, “‘The Man in the Middle’: A Social History of Automobile Industry Foremen,” Nelson Lichtenstein and Stephen Meyer, eds., On the Line: Essays in the History of Auto Work, (Urbana and Chicago: Univ. of Illinois Press, 1989), 153–89; Lichtenstein, “UAW Bargaining Strategy and Shop-Floor Conflict: 1946–1970,” Industrial Relations 24 (1985), 360–81; Lichtenstein, “The Promise of Industrial Jurisprudence and Its Demise,” in Harris and Lichtenstein; Lichtenstein, “From Corporatism to Collective Bargaining: Organized Labor and the Eclipse of Social Democracy in the Postwar Era,” Fraser and Gerstle, 122–152. See also Carl Gersuny and Gladis Kaufman, “Seniority and the Moral Economy of U.S. Automobile Workers, 1934–1946,” Journal of Social History, 18 (Spring 1985), 463–75; Stein, “Southern Workers in National Unions,” and Rick Halpern, “Interracial Unionism in the Southwest: Ft. Worth's Packinghouse Workers, 1936–1954,” both in Robert H. Zieger, ed. “Organized Labor in the Twentieth-Century South,” forthcoming, Univ. of Tennessee Press, 1991.
- An exception is Gall Gilbert J. CIO Leaders and the Democratic Alliance: The Case of the Smith Committee and the NLRB Labor Studies Journal 1989 14 Summer 3 27 See also Robert H. Zieger, review of Tomlins, The State and the Unions, Labor History 28 (1987), 91–93, and Gerstle, Working-Class Americanism, 183–84, 312–13, 332.
- See also Goldfield Michael Worker Insurgency, Radical Organization, and New Deal Labor Legislation American Political Science Review 1989 83 1257 1282 and David Plotke, “The Wagner Act, Again: Politics and Labor, 1935–1937,” Stephen Skowronek and Karen Orren, eds., Studies in American Political Development (New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1989), vol. 3, 105–56.
- Edsforth , Ronald . 1987 . Class Conflict and Cultural Consensus: The Making of a Mass Consumer Society in Flint, Michigan , New Brunswick : Rutgers Univ. Press . Joyce Shaw Peterson, American Automobile Workers, 1900–1933 (Albany: SUNY Press, 1987).
- Gartman , David . 1986 . Auto Slavery: The Labor Process in the American Automobile Industry, 1897–1950 , New Brunswick : Rutgers Univ. Press . John Barnard, “Rebirth of the UAW: Skilled and Production Workers in the Tool and Diemakers' Strike of 1939,” Labor History 27 (1986), 165–87; Kevin Boyle, “Rite of Passage: The 1939 General Motors Tool and Diemakers' Strike,” ibid., 188–203; Steve Babson, “Class, Craft, and Culture: Tool and Die Makers and the Organization of the UAW,” Michigan Historical Review, 14 (1988), 33–46; Steve Babson, “British and Irish Militants in the Detroit UAW in the 1930s,” Robert Asher and Charles Stephenson, eds., Labor Divided: Race and Ethnicity in United States Labor Struggles, 1835–1960, (Albany: SUNY Press, 1990), 227–45, 349–51; Steve Babson, “Pointing the Way: Skilled Workers and Anglo-Gaelic Immigrants in the Rise of the UAW” (diss., Wayne State Univ., 1989); Kenneth B. West, “Standard Cotton Products and the General Motors Sit-Down Strike: Some ‘Forgotten Men’ Remembered,” Michigan Historical Review, 14 (1988), 57–74; Douglas Reynolds, “Engines of Struggle: Technology, Skill, and Unionization at General Motors, 1930–1940,” ibid., 15 (1989), 69–92; Lichtenstein, “Life at the Rouge”; Stephen Meyer, “Technology and the Workplace: Skilled and Production Workers at Allis-Chalmers, 1900–1941,” Technology and Culture, 29 (1988), 839–64.
- Lichtenstein , Nelson . “ Walter Reuther and the Rise of Labor-Liberalism ” . In Dubofsky and Van Tine 280 – 302 . Nelson Lichtenstein, “UAW Bargaining Strategy and Shop-Floor Conflict: 1946–1970”; Lichtenstein, “‘The Man in the Middle,’” Lichtenstein and Meyer; Steve Jefferys, “‘Matters of Mutual Interest’: The Unionization Process at Dodge Main, 1933–1939,” ibid., 100–28; Stephen Amberg, “The Triumph of Industrial Orthodoxy: The Collapse of Studebaker-Packard,” ibid., 190–218; John Bodnar, “Power and Memory in Oral History: Workers and Managers at Studebaker,” Journal of American History, 75 (1989), 1201–21. See also Seth Wigderson, “The UAW in the 1950s” (diss., Wayne State Univ., 1989).
- Milkman , Ruth . “ Rosie the Riveter Revisited: Management's Postwar Purge of Women Automobile Workers ” . In Lichtenstein and Meyer 129 – 152 . Nancy Gabin, “Feminism in the Labor Movement: Women and the United Auto Workers, 1935–1975,” forthcoming, Cornell Univ. Press, 1990. See also note 24 below.
- Halpern , Martin . 1988 . UAW Politics in the Cold War Era , Albany : SUNY Press . Stephen Meyer, “Work, Class, and Power: The Making and Unmaking of a Red UAW Local, 1930–1950,” forthcoming, Rutgers Univ. Press, 1990. See also Robert H. Zieger, “Showdown at the Rouge,” History Today, 40 (Jan. 1990), 49–56, and Christopher Johnson, Maurice Sugar: Law, Labor, and the Left in Detroit, 1912–1950 (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1988).
- Kimeldorf , Howard . 1988 . Reds or Rackets?: The Making of Radical and Conservative Unions on the Waterfront , Berkeley and Los Angeles : Univ. of California Press . Bruce Nelson, Workers on the Waterfront: Seamen, Longshoremen, and Unionism in the 1930s (Urbana and Chicago: Univ. of Illinois Press, 1988); Michael Torigian, “National Unity on the Waterfront: Communist Politics and the ILWU During the Second World War,” Labor History, 30 (1989), 409–532.
- Brody , David . The Origins of Modern Steel Unionism: The SWOC Era 13 – 29 . and Mark McColloch, “Consolidating Industrial Citizenship: The USWA at War and Peace,” 45–86, both in Clark, Gottlieb, and Kennedy.
- Meyerhuber , Carl I. Jr. 1987 . Less than Forever: The Rise and Decline of Union Solidarity in Western Pennsylvania, 1914–1948 , Selingsgrove, Pa. : Susquehanna Univ. Press . Dennis Dickerson, Out of the Crucible: Black Steelworkers in Western Pennsylvania, 1875–1940 (Albany: SUNY Press, 1986), 134–213; Robert J. Norrell, “Caste in Steel: Jim Crow Careers in Birmingham, Alabama,” Journal of American History, 73 (1986), 669–94; Judith Stein, “Southern Workers in National Unions,” Zieger, ed., “Organized Labor in the Twentieth-Century South”; Horace Huntley, “The Red Scare and Black Workers in Alabama: The International Union of Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers, 1945–1953,” Asher and Stephenson, eds. 129–45, 327–31. See also Merl E. Reed, “Black Workers, Defense Industries, and Federal Agencies in Pennsylvania, 1941–1945,” Labor History, 27 (1986), 377, 381–82.
- For the published work on UPWA now coming on line, see Halpern Interracial Unionism in the Southwest cited above, Paul Street, “Breaking Up Old Hatreds and Breaking Through the Fear: The Emergence of the Packinghouse Workers Organizing Committee in Chicago, 1944–1940,” 63–82, and Roger Horowitz, “‘It is Harder to Struggle than to Surrender’: The Rank and File Unionism of the United Packinghouse Workers of America, 1933–1948,” 83–96, both in Studies in History and Politics, 5 (Andrew F. Johnson ed. [Kingston, Ont.: Bishop's University, 1986]).
- Ruiz , Vicki . 1987 . Cannery Women, Cannery Lives: Mexican Women, Unionization, and the California Food Processing Industry, 1930–1950 , Albuquerque : Univ. of New Mexico Press . Daniel Nelson, American Rubber Workers and Organized Labor, 1900–1941 (Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1988); Joshua Freeman, In Transit: The Transport Workers Union in New York City, 1933–1966 (New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1989). See also Mario T. Garcia, “Border Proletarians: Mexican-Americans and the International Union of Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers, 1939–1946,” Asher and Stephenson, Labor Divided, 83–104, 315–21 and Clete Daniel, Chicano Workers and the Politics of Fairness: The FEPC in the Southwest, 1941–45 (Forthcoming, Univ. of Texas Press, 1991).
- Holter , Darryl . 1988 . Sources of CIO Success: The New Deal Years in Milwaukee . Labor History , 29 : 199 – 224 . Edsforth, Class Conflict and Cultural Consensus; Robert Korstad and Nelson Lichtenstein, “Opportunities Found and Lost: Labor, Radicals, and the Early Civil Rights Movement,” Journal of American History, 75 (1988), 786–811. See also Meyerhuber, Less than Forever, John T. Cumbler, A Social History of Economic Decline: Business, Politics, and Work in Trenton (New Brunswick and London: Rutgers Univ. Press, 1989), 117–36, and Gerstle, Working-Class Americanism.
- Hodges , James A. 1986 . New Deal Labor Policy and the Southern Cotton Textile Industry, 1933–1941 , Knoxville : Univ. of Tennessee Press . Barbara S. Griffith, The Crisis of American Labor: Operation Dixie and the Defeat of the CIO (Philadelphia: Temple Univ. Press, 1988); John A. Salmond, Miss Lucy of the CIO: The Life and Times of Lucy Randolph Mason, 1882–1959 (Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press, 1988); Michael Honey, “Labor and Civil Rights in the South: The Industrial Labor Movement and Black Workers in Memphis, 1929–1945” (diss., Northern Illinois Univ., 1987); Honey, “Industrial Unionism and Racial Justice in Memphis,” Zieger, “Organized Labor in the Twentieth Century South”; William Edward Regensburger, “‘Ground Into Our Blood’: The Origins of Working Class Consciousness and Organization in Durably Unionized Southern Industries, 1930–1946” (diss., Dept. of Sociology, UCLA, 1987). See also Robert Korstad, “Daybreak of Freedom: Tobacco Workers and the CIO, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, 1943–1950” (diss., Dept. of History, Univ. of North Carolina, 1987).
- Morawska , Ewa . 1985 . East European Labourers in an American Mill Town, 1890–1940: The Deferential-Proletarian-Privatized Workers? . Sociology , 19 : 364 – 378 . Ewa Morawska, For Bread and Butter: The Life-Worlds of East Central Europeans in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, 1890–1940 (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1985); Thomas Gobel, “Becoming American: Ethnic Workers and the Rise of the CIO,” Labor History, 29 (1988), 173–98; Nelson Lichtenstein, “The Making of the Postwar Working Class: Cultural Pluralism and Social Structure in World War II,” The Historian, 51 (Nov. 1988), 42–63. See also Gerstle, Working-Class Americanism.
- Halpern . 1987 . “ UAW Politics in the Postwar Era ” . In The Cold War Against Labor: An Anthology , Edited by: Ginger , Ann Fagan and Christiano , David . Vol. 2 , Berkeley : Meiklejohn Civil Liberties Institute .
- Keeran , Roger . 1989 . The International Workers Order and the Origins of the CIO . Labor History , 30 : 385 – 408 . Kimeldorf, Reds or Rackets?; Maurice Zeitlin and Judith Stephan-Norris, “‘Who Gets the Bird?’ Or, How the Communists Won Power and Trust in American Unions: The Relative Autonomy of Intraclass Political Struggles,” American Sociological Review, 54 (1989), 503–22. See also Torigian, “National Unity,” Rosswurm and Gilpin, “The FBI and the Farm Equipment Workers,” and Regensburger, “‘Ground into Our Blood.’” A collection edited by Steven Rosswurm, “The CIO's Left-Led Unions,” is forthcoming from Rutgers Univ. Press.
- Fraser , Steve . “ The ‘Labor Question’ ” . In Fraser and Gerstle 55 – 84 . Gary Gerstle, “The Politics of Patriotism: Americanization and the Formation of the CIO,” Dissent, 33 (Winter 1986), 84–92.
- In addition to the works by Milkman, Salmond, Ruiz, and Gabin previously cited, see Milkman Ruth Gender at Work: The Dynamics of Job Segregation by Sex during World War II Univ. of Illinois Press Urbana and Chicago 1987 and Nancy Gabin, “Women and the United Automobile Workers' Union in the 1950s,” Ruth Milkman, ed., Women, Work and Protest: A Century of US Women's Labor History (Boston, London, etc.: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1985), 259–79.
- Meier , August and Rudwick , Elliott . 1979 . Black Detroit and the Rise of the UAW , N.Y. : Oxford Univ. Press .
- See Lichtenstein From Corporatism to Collective Bargaining Fraser and Gerstle; Lichtenstein, “Walter Reuther and the Rise of Labor-Liberalism,” Dubofsky and Van Tine; and Nelson Lichtenstein, “Labor in the Truman Era: Origins of the ‘Private Welfare State’,” Michael Lacey, ed., The Truman Presidency, (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1989), 128–155. Jill Quadragno, The Transformation of Old Age Security: Class and Politics in the American Welfare State (Chicago and London: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1988), 153–77, discusses the CIO's post-World War II role in Social Security legislation. Robert H. Zieger's account of the internal politics of the postwar CIO analyzes the organization's pre-merger weaknesses. (See Robert H. Zieger, “Leadership and Bureaucracy in the Late CIO,” Labor History, 31 [1990], 253–70).
- Recent works that contain material on this subject include Carew Anthony The Schism within the World Federation of Trade Unions: Government and Trade-Union Diplomacy International Review of Social History 1984 29 297 335 Carew, Labour under the Marshall Plan: The Politics of Productivity and the Marketing of Management Science (Detroit: Wayne State Univ. Press, 1987); Ronald Filippelli, American Labor and Postwar Italy, 1943–1953: A Study of Cold War Politics (Stanford: Stanford Univ. Press, 1989).
- Zieger , Robert H. 1988 . Labor and the State in Modern America: The Archival Trail . Journal of American History , 70 : 184 – 196 .
- Labor History 1990 31 Winter–Spring contains 38 articles on labor archives in the United States.
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