"We are all leaders": a symposium on a collection of essays dealing with alternative unionism in the early 1930s

A collection of reviews and commentary on Staughton Lynd's book of 1930s labor history.

CONTENTS

-The old new labor history by Robert H. Zieger

-"What did workers want in the 1930s, anyway?" by Roger Horowitz

-Can we all be leaders? by Ronald Edsforth

-The historical significance of rank-and-file unionism by Cecelia F. Bucki

-Response by Staughton Lynd

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