"A One-Sided Class War": Rethinking Doug Fraser's 1978 Resignation from the Labor-Management Group

Labor History

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2003, Pages

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EID: 0344629396     PISSN: 0023656X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/002365603200012928     Document Type: Review

References (8)

1. Thomas Geoghegan Which Side Are You On? (New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux, 1992, 163); for details on labor law reform, see Gary M. Fink, "Fragile Alliance: Jimmy Carter and the American Labor Movement," in The Presidency and Domestic Policies of Jimmy Carter, ed. Herbert D. Rosenbaum and Alexej Ugrinsky (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1994), 788-790.
2. Thomas Geoghegan Which Side Are You On? (New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux, 1992, 163); for details on labor law reform, see Gary M. Fink, "Fragile Alliance: Jimmy Carter and the American Labor Movement," in The Presidency and Domestic Policies of Jimmy Carter, ed. Herbert D. Rosenbaum and Alexej Ugrinsky (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1994), 788-790.
3. Jack Metzgar, Striking Steel: Solidarity Remembered (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2000), 39.
4. Nelson Lichtenstein, "Class Politics and the State during World War Two," International Labor and Working Class History 58 (2000), 270.
5. David Brody, Workers in Industrial America: Essays on the Twentieth Century Struggle, 2nd ed. (New York: Oxford, 1993), 220-221.
6. Seethe discussion in Taylor Dark, The Unions and the Democrats: The Enduring Alliance (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1999), 113. Dark's argument is similar to the one put forth here, except that he sees continued power with the Democratic alliance, whereas Fraser found himself trapped in a pattern of weakness.
7. On the formation of the Progressive Alliance, see the coverage in UAW Solidarity, July, 1978, October 15-30, 1978, and February, 1979.
8. John J. Sweeney, "America Needs a Raise," in Audacious Democracy: Labor, Intellectuals, and the Social Reconstruction of America, ed. Steven Fraser and Joshua B. Freeman (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1997), 13, 19.