Skilled Workers' Solidarity: The American Experience in Comparative Perspective (Garland Reference Library of Social Science)

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This text aims to provide a comparative historical analysis of capitalist democracy, focusing on development in the United States and offering comparisons with other western nations.

Author(s): Antoine Joseph
Edition: 1
Year: 2000

Language: English
Pages: 256

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
Acknowledgments......Page 8
Introduction......Page 12
Modes of Class Formation......Page 20
Pathways to Capitalist Democracy: What Prevents Social Democracy?......Page 40
The Formation of Class Fractions......Page 66
The Logic of Particularism: Creating Solidarism among Skilled Workers......Page 92
The Political Contours of Class Conflict in the Gilded Age......Page 120
The Limits of Particularism: Labor Solidarism and Social Welfare in the United States......Page 160
Homogeneous Labor and Class Formation......Page 190
Appendix A......Page 208
Appendix B......Page 212
Appendix C......Page 218
Bibliography......Page 222
Index......Page 244