Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. Introduction 1
4. PART I: THE NEW DEAL AND ITS CONTESTED ORDER
5. Chapter 1. “The Nine Judges Have Gone Home”: Liberals, the 1949 “Closed Shop Cases,” and the Undermining of Union Democracy 13
6. Chapter 2. “The Credit Problem Is Our Biggest Labor Problem”: Labor and the Making of Monetary Policy 37
7. PART II. POSTWAR DISCONTENT
8. Chapter 3. “The Magnanimity of Disorder”: Counterculture Intellectuals and the Rise of Anti-Statist Thought in Late Twentieth-Century America 63
9. Chapter 4. Cheater in Chief: Presidential Taxpaying and Fiscal Citizenship 88
10. Chapter 5. McGovernites and Neocons: Michael Harrington, Max Shachtman, and the Realignment of the Democratic Party 112
11. Chapter 6. Gender Gap: Bella Abzug and Mim Kelber’s Labor Feminist Critique of American Politics in the Late Twentieth Century 137
12. PART III: ADRIFT IN A NEW WORLD ORDER
13. Chapter 7. “We’re Taking All the Risks and They’re Getting All the Profits”: Capitalism, Labor, and Democracy in the Wastelands of Southeastern Louisiana 163
14. Chapter 8. From the “Labor Question” to the “Immigration Question”: Newcomers, Politics, and Democracy in the Contemporary United States 186
15. Chapter 9. Management and Power in Global Supply Chains: The Need for History in an Ahistorical Field 211
16. PART IV: HISTORICIZING THE POLITICS AND CULTURE OF THE NEW DEAL ORDER
17. Chapter 10. “A Working-Class Hero Is Something to Be”: Popular Culture and the Manufacture of “Labor” 237
18. Chapter 11. From Labor History to Political Economy: A Reassessment of Work, Capital, and Democracy 260
19. Afterword 279
20. List of Contributors 293
21. Index 297
22. Acknowledgments 309