Kim Phillips‐fein
Biographic Data
| ID | 4515196 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kim Phillips‐fein |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kim |
| FAMILY NAME | Phillips‐fein |
| SIGNATURE | FEIN K P |
| AFFILIATIONS | New York University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 36 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Vision of the Municipal Left
This article looks at the career of City Councilman Peter V. Cacchione, a Communist Party member. The article argues that Cacchione’s political success was possible because of the unusual dynamics of New York City in the late 1930s and 1940s: in particular, the reform coalition that made proportional representation possible. It was also driven by the unusual strategies of the Communist Party during the Popular Front period and the wartime years, …
Eli and the Octopus
On February 5, 1975, Eli Black, the chief executive of the agricultural conglomerate United Brands, died by suicide after jumping from the window of his office skyscraper in Midtown Manhattan. United Brands was an unusual company, owning a range of subsidiary agricultural producers. Central to its holdings was the notorious United Fruit, the world's largest producer of bananas, which had a long history of violence toward any workers who sought to…
Set the Night on Fire
Los Angeles holds an outsize place in the cultural imagination: a land of glamor and celebrity but also of dispossession. It is a city where nothing is hidden and yet nothing is faced head-on. The dream factory of Hollywood and the endless-summer sunshine, low-slung houses and highways belie the myriad exploitations of those who come to the city dreaming of discovery. The city has come to play, as Mike Davis put it in his 1990 historical meditati…
The Conservative Heartland
The cover image of The Conservative Heartland, co-edited by Jon K. Lauck and Catherine McNicol Stock, might now appear out of date: it depicts the twelve midwestern states (from the Dakotas to Ohio) as a solid red bloc. But the events of the first week of November 2020 demonstrate the book's premise, which is that the Midwest remains a region of great electoral importance. Why should the “blue wall” states of the Midwest be such a politically vol…
Vc
In Vc: An American History Tom Nicholas provides an exploration of the history of the venture capital industry in the United States, proceeding (as its subtitle suggests) from the assumption that it “is largely an American invention” (p. 1). The term venture capital refers to firms that provide funding to new companies in hopes of reaping substantial profits for their partners should their bets pay off. Today, the industry is associated with the …
A Fight between Two Systems of Thought
One evening in June 1938, the Wichita evangelist Gerald Burton Winrod made a campaign speech before an audience of approximately 450 people in Fremont Park in the city of Emporia, Kansas, as part of his bid to become the Republican nominee for the Senate. Although “Onward Christian Soldiers” blasted from a sound truck before he began, his address focused on the failures of the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration to redress the economic devastati…
Steven Attewell. People Must Live by Work
When Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Edward Markey released their proposal for a Green New Deal in February 2019, one of the pillars of the program was the “job guarantee”—a proposal that the federal government would be legally obligated to provide work to anyone seeking employment on the massive public projects needed to move the American economy away from its dependence on fossil fuels. Like many aspects of the ambitious proposal, the notion of th…
Contesting the Postwar City
In this remarkable book, Eric Fure-Slocum charts the emergence of “growth politics” in Milwaukee over the course of the 1940s. Delving deep into local archives and newspapers, Fure-Slocum provides a detailed, closely argued study of a single Midwestern city. Yet even as Contesting the Postwar City brings Milwaukee during and immediately after World War II to life, it also illuminates a larger debate over the nature of urban life in the postwar ye…
Author’s Response
I am tremendously honored by Lane Windham’s, Bill Fletcher’s, Suleiman Osman’s and Michael Kazin’s generous, thoughtful responses to my book, as well as by Joseph McCartin’s introduction to this forum. These are five intellectuals and scholars from whom I have learned much, and whose scholarship and activism alike has been a model for me. I deeply appreciate the time they took to think about Fear City, and I am grateful to the Kalmanowitz Initiat…
The President and American Capitalism since 1945
This excellent collection joins the growing body of literature on the interaction of the U.S. political and economic spheres. Much of the work on the history of capitalism has been focused on the nineteenth century, especially the histories of slavery and finance in that period. In a sense, it has been primarily concerned with the forces that brought capitalism into being, on the creation of markets in people, land, and money. The question of wha…
Radicals in America
Workers in Hard Times
Book Review| February 01 2016 Workers in Hard Times: A Long View of Economic Crises Workers in Hard Times: A Long View of Economic Crises. Edited by Fink, Leon, McCartin, Joseph A., and Sangster, Joan. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2014304 pp., $50.00 (cloth) Kim Phillips-Fein Kim Phillips-Fein Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2016) 13 (1): 108–111. https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-3342659 Cite Icon Cite S…
The Business Lobby and the Tea Party
Rebel Rank and File
Book Review| December 01 2013 Rebel Rank and File: Labor Militancy and Revolt from Below During the Long 1970s Rebel Rank and File: Labor Militancy and Revolt from Below during the Long 1970s. Edited by Brenner, Aaron, Brenner, Robert, and Winslow, Cal. New York: Verso, 2010 408 pp., $29.95 (cloth) Kim Phillips-Fein Kim Phillips-Fein Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2013) 10 (4): 117–118. https://doi.org/10.1215/1…
The Threshold of Joy
As Great an Issue as Slavery or Abolition”
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Labor History symposium
Shadow of the Racketeer: Scandal in Organized Labor, by David Witwer, Urbana, University of Illinois Press, 2009, ISBN 978-0-252-03417-6 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-252-07666-4 (paper) David Witwer's Shado
The permanent tax revolt
by Isaac William Martin, Stanford University Press, 2008, 264 pp., $21.95 (paper), ISBN 978‐0804758 On the morning of 20 April 1977, in Redwood City, California, 15 senior citizens who were facing
Business Conservatism on the Shop Floor
Research Article| May 01 2010 Business Conservatism on the Shop Floor: Anti-Union Campaigns in the 1950s Kim Phillips-Fein Kim Phillips-Fein Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2010) 7 (2): 9–26. https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-2009-075 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Kim Phillips-Fein; Business Conservatism on the Shop Floor: Anti-Union Campaigns in the 1950s. Labor 1 May 20…
Caught in the Web
Read by libertarians, pacifists, leftists, greens,' and independents alike (according to the site), it is a rich source of news both about the empire and about the antiwar movement. It reveals a sharply different vision of world affairs; for example, readers could find stories about the Senate Appropriations Committee agreeing to hundreds of billions of dollars more for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the pressure on the United States to ge…
Caught in the Web
Caught in the Web
Caught in the Web
Regular Column
Caught in the Web
As Great an Issue as Slavery or Abolition”
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Set the Night on Fire
Los Angeles holds an outsize place in the cultural imagination: a land of glamor and celebrity but also of dispossession. It is a city where nothing is hidden and yet nothing is faced head-on. The dream factory of Hollywood and the endless-summer sunshine, low-slung houses and highways belie the myriad exploitations of those who come to the city dreaming of discovery. The city has come to play, as Mike Davis put it in his 1990 historical meditati…
Business Conservatism on the Shop Floor
Research Article| May 01 2010 Business Conservatism on the Shop Floor: Anti-Union Campaigns in the 1950s Kim Phillips-Fein Kim Phillips-Fein Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2010) 7 (2): 9–26. https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-2009-075 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Kim Phillips-Fein; Business Conservatism on the Shop Floor: Anti-Union Campaigns in the 1950s. Labor 1 May 20…
If Business and the Country Will Be Run Right
“‘If Business and the Country Will Be Run Right:’ The Business Challenge to the Liberal Consensus, 1945–1964,” by Kim Phillips-Fein, looks at the mobilization of conservative businessmen against the liberal political economy that emerged from the New Deal and the Second World War. These businessmen were sharply critical of the expanded federal government and strong labor unions throughout the postwar period. They sought to challenge the liberal e…
Top-Down Revolution
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You're Either On the Bus
Chapters of Eleven
Caught in the Web Labor News, Views, and Resources Online
Caught in the Web
Caught in the Web
simply gone to the polls themselves. The ANES is a little overwhelming for those uninitiated in the world of statistics, but it remains a valuable resource for people interested in getting a better handle on the circus that is American presidential politics. Visit the site at http://www.electionstudies.org/. Another good source for stats on the election is the Annenberg Public Policy Center (APPC) at the University of Pennsylvania, which conducts…
Top-Down Revolution
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Caught in the Web
Buy and Hold 'Em
Retour de flamme contre le New Deal
Le conservatisme américain est souvent vu comme un mouvement populiste à ses origines, surgi en réaction aux conflits culturels de la fin des années 1960 et du début des années 1970. Mais cette interprétation ne rend pas compte de l’importance des idées économiques dans l’histoire du mouvement. Des patrons ont ainsi joué un rôle central dans son développement au cours des années 1950 et 1960, avant même que le mouvement ne gagne en influence et e…
Regular Column
Caught in the Web
Caught in the Web
If Business and the Country Will Be Run Right
“‘If Business and the Country Will Be Run Right:’ The Business Challenge to the Liberal Consensus, 1945–1964,” by Kim Phillips-Fein, looks at the mobilization of conservative businessmen against the liberal political economy that emerged from the New Deal and the Second World War. These businessmen were sharply critical of the expanded federal government and strong labor unions throughout the postwar period. They sought to challenge the liberal e…
Caught in the Web
Caught in the Web
Caught in the Web
The permanent tax revolt
by Isaac William Martin, Stanford University Press, 2008, 264 pp., $21.95 (paper), ISBN 978‐0804758 On the morning of 20 April 1977, in Redwood City, California, 15 senior citizens who were facing
Business Conservatism on the Shop Floor
Research Article| May 01 2010 Business Conservatism on the Shop Floor: Anti-Union Campaigns in the 1950s Kim Phillips-Fein Kim Phillips-Fein Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2010) 7 (2): 9–26. https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-2009-075 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Kim Phillips-Fein; Business Conservatism on the Shop Floor: Anti-Union Campaigns in the 1950s. Labor 1 May 20…
Caught in the Web
Read by libertarians, pacifists, leftists, greens,' and independents alike (according to the site), it is a rich source of news both about the empire and about the antiwar movement. It reveals a sharply different vision of world affairs; for example, readers could find stories about the Senate Appropriations Committee agreeing to hundreds of billions of dollars more for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the pressure on the United States to ge…
As Great an Issue as Slavery or Abolition”
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Labor History symposium
Shadow of the Racketeer: Scandal in Organized Labor, by David Witwer, Urbana, University of Illinois Press, 2009, ISBN 978-0-252-03417-6 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-252-07666-4 (paper) David Witwer's Shado
The Threshold of Joy
Rebel Rank and File
Book Review| December 01 2013 Rebel Rank and File: Labor Militancy and Revolt from Below During the Long 1970s Rebel Rank and File: Labor Militancy and Revolt from Below during the Long 1970s. Edited by Brenner, Aaron, Brenner, Robert, and Winslow, Cal. New York: Verso, 2010 408 pp., $29.95 (cloth) Kim Phillips-Fein Kim Phillips-Fein Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2013) 10 (4): 117–118. https://doi.org/10.1215/1…
The Business Lobby and the Tea Party
Workers in Hard Times
Book Review| February 01 2016 Workers in Hard Times: A Long View of Economic Crises Workers in Hard Times: A Long View of Economic Crises. Edited by Fink, Leon, McCartin, Joseph A., and Sangster, Joan. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2014304 pp., $50.00 (cloth) Kim Phillips-Fein Kim Phillips-Fein Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2016) 13 (1): 108–111. https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-3342659 Cite Icon Cite S…
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