Introduction: Global Strategies, Hometown Factories 1. Making Campbell's Soup: Camden, 1869-1935 2. Bedaux, Discipline, and Radical Unions 3. World War II and the Transformation of the Workforce 4. The Fight to Save Local 80, 1946-1953 5. The UPWA's Social Unionism versus William Beverly Murphy 6. 1968: The Strike for Unity 7. Waiting for the End 8. Legacies
Daniel Sidorick teaches labor history at Rutgers University New Brunswick.
"Daniel Sidorick has written a lively account of the conflicts between labor and capital at the Campbell Soup company during its years in Camden, New Jersey... In addition to providing an overview of the historiographical landscape of the process of globalization, Sidorick provides insight into the changing worker culture at Camden-the ebb and flow of ethnic groups and immigrants. He also gives a first-rate account of the politics of the place and a valuable history of the remarkable union there. The workers at Camden who formed and sustained one of the most important and fascinating unions of the mid-twentieth century are this book's centerpiece."-Journal of American History "Condensed Capitalism is a case study of the fundamental capitalist drive to find cheap and controllable labor and the equally fundamental union attempts to resist such efforts. It is clear, readable, and accessible. This characteristic will make Condensed Capitalism useful in the classroom."-Steve Penfold, Labour/Le Travail "Drawing on a rich mix of company records, archives and oral history material, Condensed Capitalism is a fascinating mix of management, business, labour and working-class history. The author frames the book's narrative in the context of union politics, race, gender and an understanding of the labour processes in the plant."-Tim Strangleman, Sociology "Condensed Capitalism is a first-rate study of labor-management relations at Campbell Soup. This is business history that places the struggles between workers and their unions and the management at the center of the story. Daniel Sidorick has produced a lively narrative that vividly recreates the endemic tensions of industrial America. Condensed Capitalism is 'Mm, Mm, Good.'"-Robert Korstad, Kevin D. Gorter Associate Professor of Public Policy Studies and History, Duke University "The union at Campbell Soup's Camden plant was one of the most remarkable progressive unions in the mid-twentieth century. Daniel Sidorick's superb Condensed Capitalism tells us about its accomplishments, as well as the impact of late-twentieth-century capitalism on its demise."-Roger Horowitz, Center for the History of Business, Technology, and Society at the Hagley Museum and Library, University of Delaware "Three decades ago, I read UCAPAWA/FTA News cover to cover and in locating material for my dissertation, I came across fascinating stories about union workers at Campbell Soup. I thought someday they will have their history told. That someday has arrived! Condensed Capitalism is labor history at its best, an accessible and intelligent integration of the global stage and the shop floor."-Vicki L. Ruiz, University of California, Irvine "Daniel Sidorick has written a volume that should be required reading for labor historians, scholars of American business enterprise, and all those interested in the peculiar features of twentieth-century U.S. capitalism. His careful study of labor and capital at Camden's most famous company focuses on the way in which management's rule was necessarily incomplete-constantly contested by working people and structured by national and global forces beyond its immediate control. Given the current economic malaise gripping the country, this is a book for our times."-Rick Halpern, University of Toronto
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