Andrew Kolin is professor of political science at Hilbert College.

Rather than write a comprehensive history of labor in the US, Kolin (Hilbert College) investigates labor repression by looking at events at specific points in time. He views these events entirely through the lens of class conflict between labor and capital and studies the beginnings of repressive policies in the pre-industrial era during and in the immediate aftermath of the American Revolution. Then he turns to labor’s response to the rise of the factory system. Next, he shows how workplace policies in the late 19th and early 20th centuries excluded labor from decision making. The reasons for continuing political repression of labor during the expanding economy of the 1920s are investigated. Labor and the New Deal are dealt with next. The role of communists and labor’s role in purging communists from its ranks takes the next two chapters. Capital’s backlash against labor from the 1970s forward is the final historical topic. The author concludes by outlining the steps needed to establish a truly democratic economy in the US. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty.

• IntroductionChapter One: The State and the Economy after the American RevolutionChapter Two: Inclusion-Exclusion and the Growth of American CapitalismChapter Three: The Working Class on the Defensive: Response to Workplace ExclusionChapter Four: Political Repression at the WorkplaceChapter Five: Post WWI to the DepressionChapter Six: The Depression and Labor RepressionChapter Seven: The Labor Anti-Communism BacklashChapter Eight: Capital and Labor during WWIIChapter Nine: Domestic Cold War Politics and Labor RepressionChapter Ten: Economic Downturns and Labor Repression from the 1970sChapter Eleven: Conclusion: What’s Next? Bibliography

Andrew Kolin is professor of political science at Hilbert College.

Rather than write a comprehensive history of labor in the US, Kolin (Hilbert College) investigates labor repression by looking at events at specific points in time. He views these events entirely through the lens of class conflict between labor and capital and studies the beginnings of repressive policies in the pre-industrial era during and in the immediate aftermath of the American Revolution. Then he turns to labor’s response to the rise of the factory system. Next, he shows how workplace policies in the late 19th and early 20th centuries excluded labor from decision making. The reasons for continuing political repression of labor during the expanding economy of the 1920s are investigated. Labor and the New Deal are dealt with next. The role of communists and labor’s role in purging communists from its ranks takes the next two chapters. Capital’s backlash against labor from the 1970s forward is the final historical topic. The author concludes by outlining the steps needed to establish a truly democratic economy in the US. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty.

• IntroductionChapter One: The State and the Economy after the American RevolutionChapter Two: Inclusion-Exclusion and the Growth of American CapitalismChapter Three: The Working Class on the Defensive: Response to Workplace ExclusionChapter Four: Political Repression at the WorkplaceChapter Five: Post WWI to the DepressionChapter Six: The Depression and Labor RepressionChapter Seven: The Labor Anti-Communism BacklashChapter Eight: Capital and Labor during WWIIChapter Nine: Domestic Cold War Politics and Labor RepressionChapter Ten: Economic Downturns and Labor Repression from the 1970sChapter Eleven: Conclusion: What’s Next? Bibliography

Andrew Kolin is professor of political science at Hilbert College.

Rather than write a comprehensive history of labor in the US, Kolin (Hilbert College) investigates labor repression by looking at events at specific points in time. He views these events entirely through the lens of class conflict between labor and capital and studies the beginnings of repressive policies in the pre-industrial era during and in the immediate aftermath of the American Revolution. Then he turns to labor’s response to the rise of the factory system. Next, he shows how workplace policies in the late 19th and early 20th centuries excluded labor from decision making. The reasons for continuing political repression of labor during the expanding economy of the 1920s are investigated. Labor and the New Deal are dealt with next. The role of communists and labor’s role in purging communists from its ranks takes the next two chapters. Capital’s backlash against labor from the 1970s forward is the final historical topic. The author concludes by outlining the steps needed to establish a truly democratic economy in the US. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty.

• IntroductionChapter One: The State and the Economy after the American RevolutionChapter Two: Inclusion-Exclusion and the Growth of American CapitalismChapter Three: The Working Class on the Defensive: Response to Workplace ExclusionChapter Four: Political Repression at the WorkplaceChapter Five: Post WWI to the DepressionChapter Six: The Depression and Labor RepressionChapter Seven: The Labor Anti-Communism BacklashChapter Eight: Capital and Labor during WWIIChapter Nine: Domestic Cold War Politics and Labor RepressionChapter Ten: Economic Downturns and Labor Repression from the 1970sChapter Eleven: Conclusion: What’s Next? Bibliography