Titlebook: American Labour and Consensus Capitalism, 1935-1990; Patrick Renshaw Textbook 1991Latest edition Macmillan Publishers Limited 1991

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Matthias Wingens,Michael GrotheerDespite his Roman Catholic religion, Kennedy had managed to hold the Democratic South while carrying the vote-heavy industrial States of the Northeast and Great Lakes region (with the exception of Ohio), plus Texas.

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New Deal Renaissance, labour history. Indeed, the Wagner Act is that point at which the modern history of American unions begins. Its sponsor was a lifelong urban liberal and reforming friend of labour. He had started in politics in 1910, when first elected to the New York State legislature at Albany on the Democratic t

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Reconversion and Reaction,ere current about the kind of world which would emerge once the enemy had been defeated. Yet just as the Cold War crudely was to destroy this optimistic climate of opinion in foreign affairs, so labour relations proved more troubled in the period of economic reconversion after 1945. This came as no

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Purging the Communists, democracy or co-partnership as the chief postwar goal of the labour movement, and union leaders had actually enforced the deal. In return for higher real wages, management was left with a free hand in controlling the labour process. Consensus capitalism had come of age. Yet the main obstacle in the

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The Emergence of Corporate Consensus,t since the New Deal came together in that decade and a half to form one powerful thread which ran right through the central pattern of the nation’s life. The eruption of unions during the Depression, their co-option after into the controlling industrial bureaucracy in wartime, and the outcome of th

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The Collapse of the Keynesian Economy,ey put together the old New Deal coalition of labour unions and political machines, such as those of Richard Daley in Chicago and G. Mennen (Soapy) Williams in Michigan, and the solid South. This gave John F. Kennedy his wafer-thin victory over Richard Nixon in the November race to the White House.

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Conclusion,sive against unions launched at the end of the war had been so successful that the AFL was near the point of collapse. In a period of unparalleled prosperity unions had been outflanked by welfare capitalism, company unionism and the open shop. To some it looked as if the United States, alone among W