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The Unions and the Democrats : An Enduring Alliance / Taylor E. Dark.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018]Copyright date: ©2001Edition: Updated EditionDescription: 1 online resource (272 p.) : 4 tablesContent type:
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  • 9781501721175
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  • 322.209730904 21/eng/20230216
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface to the Cornell Paperbacks Edition -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Continuing Significance of Labor Politics -- Part One. BEYOND THE IMAGE OF DECLINE -- 1. The Debate about Decline -- 2. Labor Unions and Political Bargaining -- Part Two. UNIONS IN THE WASHINGTON POWER GAME -- 3. Labor and the Johnson Administration: The Limits of Cooperation -- 4. Crises of Representation, I968-I976 -- 5. Labor and the Carter Administration: The Origins of Conflict -- 6. The Union Strategy to Regain the Presidency -- 7. Labor and the Congressional Democrats -- 8. The Clinton Administration: The Legacy of the Past -- Conclusion: Organized Labor at the End of the Twentieth Century -- Postscript: Labor Approaches the Post-Clinton Era -- Notes -- Index
Summary: Although labor unions have faced a decline in membership in recent decades, they have not necessarily lost their political clout. The Unions and the Democrats illuminates the inner dynamics of labor's relationship to the American political system over the past generation. It examines organized labor from the Johnson administration through the 2000 elections, showing that labor's alliance with the Democratic Party has endured despite changes in the economy and the revival of conservatism.Drawing on extensive interviews with union leaders and lobbyists, Taylor E. Dark provides a historical perspective often lacking in studies of union political involvement. He compares the relationship of presidents Johnson, Carter, and Clinton with labor and analyzes cases of union involvement in legislative lobbying, executive decision-making, and both congressional and presidential elections.The book explores such topics as the effects of political reform on union power, the development of union legislative goals, and the impact of unions on economic policymaking, and also evaluates the controversy over union campaign spending in the 1996 elections. It demonstrates that labor's evolving alliance with the Democrats continues to shape America.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface to the Cornell Paperbacks Edition -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Continuing Significance of Labor Politics -- Part One. BEYOND THE IMAGE OF DECLINE -- 1. The Debate about Decline -- 2. Labor Unions and Political Bargaining -- Part Two. UNIONS IN THE WASHINGTON POWER GAME -- 3. Labor and the Johnson Administration: The Limits of Cooperation -- 4. Crises of Representation, I968-I976 -- 5. Labor and the Carter Administration: The Origins of Conflict -- 6. The Union Strategy to Regain the Presidency -- 7. Labor and the Congressional Democrats -- 8. The Clinton Administration: The Legacy of the Past -- Conclusion: Organized Labor at the End of the Twentieth Century -- Postscript: Labor Approaches the Post-Clinton Era -- Notes -- Index

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Although labor unions have faced a decline in membership in recent decades, they have not necessarily lost their political clout. The Unions and the Democrats illuminates the inner dynamics of labor's relationship to the American political system over the past generation. It examines organized labor from the Johnson administration through the 2000 elections, showing that labor's alliance with the Democratic Party has endured despite changes in the economy and the revival of conservatism.Drawing on extensive interviews with union leaders and lobbyists, Taylor E. Dark provides a historical perspective often lacking in studies of union political involvement. He compares the relationship of presidents Johnson, Carter, and Clinton with labor and analyzes cases of union involvement in legislative lobbying, executive decision-making, and both congressional and presidential elections.The book explores such topics as the effects of political reform on union power, the development of union legislative goals, and the impact of unions on economic policymaking, and also evaluates the controversy over union campaign spending in the 1996 elections. It demonstrates that labor's evolving alliance with the Democrats continues to shape America.

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