LEADER 03295nam 22006014a 450 001 9910958486103321 005 20251117115855.0 010 $a0-8262-6357-7 035 $a(CKB)1000000000001671 035 $a(OCoLC)54761081 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10048235 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000128677 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11139637 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000128677 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10070645 035 $a(PQKB)10968146 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3570770 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3570770 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10048235 035 $a(OCoLC)56422736 035 $a(BIP)11494291 035 $a(BIP)7834622 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000001671 100 $a20020801d2002 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aConfronting American labor $ethe New Left dilemma /$fJeffrey W. Coker 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aColumbia $cUniversity of Missouri Press$dc2002 215 $a1 online resource (227 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 08$a0-8262-1420-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 189-201) and index. 327 $aLabor and the search for American socialism -- The exceptionalism of American labor -- The intellectual's role in the workers' movement -- Abandonment of the "labor metaphysic" -- The promise of insurgent labor -- New lefts, new insurgents -- The new labor history and the revival of the proletariat -- The historian's search for power. 330 $aConfronting American Labor traces the development of the American left, from the Depression era through the Cold War, by examining four representative intellectuals who grappled with the difficult question of labor's role in society. Since the time of Marx, leftists have raised over and over the question of how an intelligentsia might participate in a movement carried out by the working class. Their modus operandi was to champion those who suffered injustice at the hands of the powerful. From the late nineteenth through much of the twentieth century, this meant a focus on the industrial worker. The Great Depression was a time of remarkable consensus among leftist intellectuals, who often interpreted worker militancy as the harbinger of impending radical change. While most Americans waited out the crisis, listening to the assurances of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, the Marxian left was convinced that the crisis was systemic. Intellectuals who came of age during the Depression developed the view that the labor movement in America was to be the organizing base for a proletariat. Moreover, many came from working-class backgrounds that contributed to their support of labor. 606 $aLabor movement$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aSocialism$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aNew Left$zUnited States$xHistory 615 0$aLabor movement$xHistory. 615 0$aSocialism$xHistory. 615 0$aNew Left$xHistory. 676 $a331.8/0973 700 $aCoker$b Jeffrey W$01797095 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910958486103321 996 $aConfronting American labor$94479379 997 $aUNINA