Crucible of Freedom: Workers' Democracy in the Industrial Heartland, 1914-1960

by Eric Leif Davin

Working people created a new America in the 1930s and 1940s which was a fundamental departure from the feudalistic and hierarchical America which existed before. In the process, class politics re-defined the political agenda of America as--for the first and time in American history--the political universe polarized along class lines. The author explores the meaning of the new deal political mobilization by ordinary people by examining the changes...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0739122398
• ISBN13: 9780739122396
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.9" x 8.9"