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Sinyai, Clayton. Schools of Democracy: A Political History of the American Labor Movement. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2006. 282 pages. Paper, $24.95.
Union membership in the United States has been in a downward trajectory since the late 1960s, and union influence on public policymaking has diminished along with its numbers. In the current work by Sinyai, the author traces the development of labor unions in the United States but focuses uniquely on their efforts to educate workers for effective democratic citizenship. He argues that unions have performed a role well beyond that of organizing and bargaining to obtain economic benefits for their members. Unions have strengthened the democratic tradition by giving workers a voice in decisions in the workplace and developing democratic habits needed by all who would contribute to the health of the political process.
Sinyai begins his argument with developments affecting... |
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