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History, Complexity, and Politics: Further Thoughts

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 November 2008

Jefferson Cowie  and
Nick Salvatore
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Extract

We would like to thank our commentators for their vigorous responses to our essay. Those comments were varied and, at times, at odds with each other but contained a remarkable agreement around our core premise: that the New Deal order was based on an exceptional and unstable set of political circumstances. Beyond that basic consensus, however, a number of important points of contention deserve discussion.

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Scholarly Controversy: Rethinking the Place of the New Deal in American History
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International Labor and Working-Class History , Volume 74 , Issue 1 , Fall 2008 , pp. 63 - 69
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Copyright © International Labor and Working-Class History, Inc. 2008

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NOTES

1. Cowie, Jefferson, Capital Moves: RCA's Seventy Years Quest for Cheap Labor (Ithaca, 1999), 189–190Google Scholar; Perlman, Selig, A Theory of the Labor Movement (New York, 1928), 314–315Google Scholar.

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7. Frymer, Paul, Black and Blue: African Americans, the Labor Movement, and the Decline of the Democratic Party (Princeton, 2008), 2–3, 9Google Scholar. Emphasis added.