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Contents List of Figures List of Tables List of Abbreviations Acknowledgments Introduction Labor-based Parties Explaining by Comparing Some Possible Objections Historical Overview Mutual Awareness Chapter Summary Chapter 1 Workers Prosperity Skilled and Unskilled Workers The Effect of the New Unionism Workers and Farmers Conclusion Chapter 2 Race The Extent of Racial Hostility The Effect in Australia The Effect in the United States Compared European Immigration Conclusion Chapter 3. Elections and the Constitution Early Suffrage The Electoral System Multimember Districts The Case of Illinois Federalism Presidentialism Conclusion Chapter 4 The Courts The Court Repression Thesis Labor Law and the Courts Union Attitudes towards Politics The Effect of Court Repression Conclusion Chapter 5 Repression Two Theses on Repression The Extent of Repression Soldiers and Police The Effect of Repression in Australia The Effect in the United States Compared The Effect in Illinois Compared Complexities and Qualifications Conclusion Chapter 6 Liberalism Social Egalitarianism Labor Leaders in Australia Labor Leaders in the United States Were Their Claims Plausible? Individual Freedom Labor Leaders in Australia Labor Leaders in the United States Were Their Claims Plausible? Conclusion Chapter 7 Religion The Extent of Religious Involvement The Nature of Religious Beliefs Protestant Clergy Catholic Clergy The Response of Labor Leaders to Clerical Hostility Religion and the Party System The Late 1880s and the Early 1890s The Effect in the United States The Effect in Australia Compared Conclusion Chapter 8 Socialism Left-Wing Reform Ideologies Labor Parties and Left-Wing Factionalism Socialists and Unionists in the United States Socialists and Unionists in Australia Compared Conclusion Conclusion Negative Findings Positive Findings American Politics and Society Appendix: Notes and Sources for the Tables Notes Bibliography Index
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Labor unions -- United States -- Political activity -- History.
Labor unions -- Australia -- Political activity -- History.
Political sociology.