It is the rare volume of labor history that opens with a quote from Rousseau. What has the Social Contract to do with John L. Lewis’s famous dictum that unions exist to get “more”-a formulation that, taken at face value, shows scant regard for the general welfare? But as either a scholar or trade-union activist, Clayton Sinyai sees no contradiction. “E (...)
September 08, 2006
Books
Solidarity Interrupted
Schools of DemocracyA Political History of the American Labor MovementClayton SinyaiCornell University Press, $22.50, 282 pp.
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