"Pure and Simple Politics is quite simply the definitive study of AFL politics in the Gompers era. Greene's subtle and compelling narrative portrays a labor politics never completely shorn of its anti-party roots, a beleaguered federation forced to disguise its partisan political influence, and an official political ideology that remains persistently anti-statist, even as its constituency and its adopted Democratic party embrace the progressive state. This work signals new and serious attention by historians to the national political presence of organized labor in the Progressive era." Shelton Stromquist, University of Iowa

• Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I. The Rise of Pure and Simple Politics: 1. Building the federation; 2. The revolt against party slavery; 3. Labor's new century; Part II. The Strike at the Ballot Box: 4. A popular uprising of honest men; 5. Delivering the labor vote; 6. Party politics and workers' discontent; Part III. The Retreat from Popular Politics: 7. Quiet campaigns; 8. The making of labor's democracy; Conclusion; Index.

"Pure and Simple Politics is quite simply the definitive study of AFL politics in the Gompers era. Greene's subtle and compelling narrative portrays a labor politics never completely shorn of its anti-party roots, a beleaguered federation forced to disguise its partisan political influence, and an official political ideology that remains persistently anti-statist, even as its constituency and its adopted Democratic party embrace the progressive state. This work signals new and serious attention by historians to the national political presence of organized labor in the Progressive era." Shelton Stromquist, University of Iowa

• Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I. The Rise of Pure and Simple Politics: 1. Building the federation; 2. The revolt against party slavery; 3. Labor's new century; Part II. The Strike at the Ballot Box: 4. A popular uprising of honest men; 5. Delivering the labor vote; 6. Party politics and workers' discontent; Part III. The Retreat from Popular Politics: 7. Quiet campaigns; 8. The making of labor's democracy; Conclusion; Index.

"Pure and Simple Politics is quite simply the definitive study of AFL politics in the Gompers era. Greene's subtle and compelling narrative portrays a labor politics never completely shorn of its anti-party roots, a beleaguered federation forced to disguise its partisan political influence, and an official political ideology that remains persistently anti-statist, even as its constituency and its adopted Democratic party embrace the progressive state. This work signals new and serious attention by historians to the national political presence of organized labor in the Progressive era." Shelton Stromquist, University of Iowa

• Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I. The Rise of Pure and Simple Politics: 1. Building the federation; 2. The revolt against party slavery; 3. Labor's new century; Part II. The Strike at the Ballot Box: 4. A popular uprising of honest men; 5. Delivering the labor vote; 6. Party politics and workers' discontent; Part III. The Retreat from Popular Politics: 7. Quiet campaigns; 8. The making of labor's democracy; Conclusion; Index.