Table of Contents

Preface 
Acknowledgments 

I. Introduction: Workers, Unions, and Politics 
2. Social Foundations of Unionism 
3. Shipowners Organize 
4. The Strategic Pivot 
5. Generations in Motion 
6. From Hot to Cold War 
7. Conclusion: Unions in the Making 

Notes 
Bibliography 
Index 

About the Author

Howard Kimeldorf is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Michigan.

Reviews

"Kimeldorf writes in an accessible, historically grounded manner. . . . His intelligent use of the comparative approach offers fresh insights into what has made left-wing unionism succeed, or falter, in the twentieth-century United States."--Daniel Lewin, "The Journal of American History