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The New Men of Power: America's Labor Leaders
The New Men of Power America's Labor Leaders Author:C. Wright Mills When C. Wright Mills published "The New Men of Power" in 1948, he taught labour leaders a new strategic elite and the unions a set of vanguard organizations that were crucial to "stopping the main drift towards war and slump." Today, as the unions once again seek to play a decisive role in American life, Mills' remarkable probe into the structur... more »e and ideology of mid-twentieth-century trade unionism remains essential reading. A new introduction by historian Nelson Lichtenstein offers insight into the Millsian political world at the time he wrote "The New Men of Power".« less