Pub Date : 2020-05-01DOI: 10.1215/15476715-8114733
J. Gregory
Is the American Left reemerging as a political force? Suddenly there are socialists in Congress, socialists on city councils, socialists in the Democratic Party, and much of the media has taken up the question of whether the Democratic Party is swinging to the left. If we are indeed seeing a new surge to the left and new phase of American radicalism, it would not be the first time. This is something that has happened repeatedly in the past century. The particulars are new, but the cycles of movement reinvention appear to be a feature of American politics, one that historians have not adequately explored. American radicalism has been a vexing subject for many years. It was not long ago that historians could do little more than grieve, framing the subject as a story of failures and asking whynot questions. Why was there no revolution? Why wasn’t the US Left more like the European Left or the Canadian Left? Why did the Socialist Party fall apart? Why did the New Left fade? No longer. Books by Paul Buhle, Richard Flacks, Michael Kazin, Doug Rossinow, Howard Brick, Christopher Phelps, Rhodri JeffreyJones, and Dawson Barrett have changed the tone, examining accomplishments as well as limitations, arguing that the Left has initiated significant transformations, especially involving the rights of previously excluded populations, while a century of radical action has also changed the dimensions of the civic sphere and democratic practice by fostering a culture of activism. The newer books do so in
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Pub Date : 2020-05-01DOI: 10.1215/15476715-8114854
G. D. Jong
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Pub Date : 2020-05-01DOI: 10.1215/15476715-8114745
Shaun S. Nichols
Exceptionalism has long defined our understanding of the rise of progressive politics in the early twentieth-century United States. While industrialized European nations blazed the path of social democracy, in the United States, it is argued, “progressivism” merely legitimized middle-class cultural hegemony, social engineering, and the subversion of working-class power. In this era, however, social reform was a distinctly state-led phenomenon, only rarely taken up by the federal Congress. As such, by analyzing labor protest at the level of the state—in this case, Washington—a different interpretation emerges. American “progressivism” was neither exceptionally repressive nor of little interest to labor. In fact, espousing a language of progress, the common good, and the duty of the state to promote “social harmony,” Washington workers actively drew on “progressive” ideas in their struggles to tame the excesses of industrial capitalism. This ideology of “labor progressivism” became the foundation for unprecedented working-class power.
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Pub Date : 2019-12-01DOI: 10.1215/15476715-7790431
Jordan B. Smith
{"title":"Contested Bodies: Pregnancy, Childrearing, and Slavery in Jamaica, by Sasha Turner","authors":"Jordan B. Smith","doi":"10.1215/15476715-7790431","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-7790431","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45843,"journal":{"name":"Labour-England","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2019-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66020149","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-12-01DOI: 10.1215/15476715-7790395
David Palmer
{"title":"Working-Class Nationalism and Internationalism until 1945: Essays in Global Labour History, ed. by Steven Parfitt, Lorenzo Costaguta, Matthew Kidd, and John Tiplady","authors":"David Palmer","doi":"10.1215/15476715-7790395","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-7790395","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45843,"journal":{"name":"Labour-England","volume":"16 1","pages":"119-121"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2019-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41481960","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-12-01DOI: 10.1215/15476715-7790455
B. Kelly
{"title":"The Civil War in the United States, by Karl Marx and Frederick Engels","authors":"B. Kelly","doi":"10.1215/15476715-7790455","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-7790455","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45843,"journal":{"name":"Labour-England","volume":"16 1","pages":"133-135"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2019-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44564352","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-12-01DOI: 10.1215/15476715-7790358
Jessica Wilkerson
{"title":"Reconsidering Southern Labor History: Race, Class, and Power, ed. by Matthew Hild and Keri Leigh Merritt","authors":"Jessica Wilkerson","doi":"10.1215/15476715-7790358","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-7790358","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45843,"journal":{"name":"Labour-England","volume":"16 1","pages":"109-111"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2019-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47280934","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-12-01DOI: 10.1215/15476715-7790407
C. Pearson
{"title":"Frontiers of Labor: Comparative Histories of the United States and Australia, ed. by Greg Patmore and Shelton Stromquist","authors":"C. Pearson","doi":"10.1215/15476715-7790407","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-7790407","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45843,"journal":{"name":"Labour-England","volume":"16 1","pages":"122-125"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2019-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42598490","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-12-01DOI: 10.1215/15476715-7790306
N. Kirk
{"title":"Wobblies of the World: A Global History of the IWW, ed. by Peter Cole, David Struthers, and Kenyon Zimmer","authors":"N. Kirk","doi":"10.1215/15476715-7790306","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-7790306","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45843,"journal":{"name":"Labour-England","volume":"16 1","pages":"99-101"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2019-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41313038","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2018-12-21DOI: 10.3929/ethz-b-000313509
Thomas Bolli, F. Pusterla
This article uses Swiss firm‐level panel data to show that complementarities among workers with different types of education affect firms' productivity. We consider workers with four different types of education: no post‐secondary education, upper secondary vocational education and training (VET), tertiary professional education, and tertiary academic education. To account for possible endogeneity, we exploit within‐firm variation and employ a structural estimation technique that uses intermediate inputs as a proxy for unobserved productivity shocks. Our results suggest that workers with an upper secondary VET education are complementary to workers with a tertiary academic education, while workers with no post‐secondary education are complementary to workers with a tertiary professional education. Altogether, our findings highlight the importance of vertical and horizontal education diversity within firms.
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