A Contest of Ideas: Capital, Politics and Labor

by Nelson Lichtenstein

Book Overview

For more than thirty years Nelson Lichtenstein has deployed his scholarship--on labor, politics, and social thought--to chart the history and prospects of a progressive America. A Contest of Ideas collects and updates many of Lichtenstein's most provocative and controversial essays and reviews. These incisive writings link the fate of the labor movement to the transformations in the shape of world capitalism, to the rise of the civil rights movement,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252037855
• ISBN13: 9780252037856
• Release Date: September 2013
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.1"