Fragile Alliances: Labor and Politics in Evansville, Indiana, 1919-1955 (Contributions to Labor Studies Series)

Capturing only the main contour's of labor's political position in the community, White (labor education, U. of Missouri-Columbia) considers the history of labor and politics in the Indiana city from the end of World War I to the merging of the American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Unions to become the enduring institution AFL-CIO. He chose to study Evansville because it is one of the state's oldest industrial centers, on the banks of the Ohio River; is of a reasonable size to draw conclusions from its history for relations between labor and politics in the US in general during the period; and was composed overwhelmingly of American-born white Protestants and so reflected Middle America outside of the large cities. Annotation ©2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR