Labor's Struggles, 1945–1950

Neitheranautobiographynorascholarlyanalysis,Labor'sStruggles,1945–1950:AParticipant'sViewisaskilfulblendofbothgenres.Informativeandoriginalinitsinsightsandanalyses,thisbookprovidesthereaderwithinformationavailablefromnoothersource.Theseinsightsmustbeincludedinanysubsequenteffortstointerpretthisperiodinlabourhistory.RichterbasedthisaccountlargelyonhisownexperienceaslegislativerepresentativefortheUnitedAutoWorkers-C.I.O.from1943to1947,aswellasondocumentsandconversationsfromthatperiod,supplementedwithhistoricalresearch.ThisstudyofpolicymakinginunionheadquartersandinWashingtonfocusesonthe1945splitswithintheC.I.O.aswellasthesharpdivisionsbetweenthe'social'C.I.O.andthe'opportunistic'A.F.L.Inaddition,itfocusesontheLabourManagement(Taft-Hartley)Actof1947whichdividedanalreadyfragmentedmovement.