Pursuing Justice: Lee Pressman, the New Deal, and the Cio (SUNY Series in American Labor History) (Suny Series, American Labor History)
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| Rating | : | 4.55 (788 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0791441040 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 390 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-08-20 |
| Language | : | English |
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He is the author of The Politics of Right to Work: The Labor Federations as Special Interests, 1943-1978 . Gilbert J. Gall is Associate Professor of Labor Studies and Industrial Relations at Pennsylvania State University
labor law, and to the history of the New Deal-Fair Deal era. This book chronicles Pressman's fascinating public life and examines his contributions to the rebirth of the American labor movement, to the development of U.S. Working among the movers and shapers of American politics, he was also one of the most high-placed, though covert, adherents of communism in public life during the New Deal-Fair Deal years. Lewis's legal strategist during the CIO's succesful campaign to unionize the mass production industries in the United States in the 1930s. Pressman served as John L. As the nation's most prominent labor lawyer during a period of ascending labor power, Lee Pressman served as General Counsel of the Congress of Industrial Organizations from 1933 to 1948. After he left the CIO in 1948 to support the independent Progressive Party campaign of Henry Wallace, he found his public career dissipating as he became embroiled in the Alger Hiss case and the rising anticommunist tide of the early Cold War years.. Performing a similar role for Philip Murray, Lewis's successor, Pressman guided the new labor federation through the perils of wartime labor policy and the turbulent post-war economic reconversion
A Great Book About a Great Lawyer Reckless Reader Some of our country's most exciting historical figures get lost in our historical amnesia, our inability to remember further back than last year's Oscars, and sometimes not even that farthe story of the CIO and our nation's greatest union labor lawyer, Lee Pressman, is one incredibly important piece of history that is just LOST, lost, lost, much to our harm. This book is an excellent introduction to a fighter for workers' rights, a time when the fight mattered and occupied the front pages of the newspapers, and it is also a deeply nuanced and sophisticated examination of a complicated figure
Gall s work rightly focuses on the legal and public policy issues that were at the heart of the New Deal dispensation. Zieger, University of Florida" . A splendid example of mature, thoughtful, and engaged scholarship. This is an outstanding book in its conception, research, analysis, and presentation, certain to take its place as one of the leading studies of labor-liberalism in the New Deal era. Robert H