Conflict and Consensus

The Steel Strike of 1959 and the Anatomy of the New Deal Order

Dados Bibliográficos

ID13085561
AutoresKristoffer Smemo (0009-0006-0886-7364, University of California, Santa Barbara, autor correspondente), Samir Sonti (0000-0003-1670-7521, University of California, Santa Barbara), Gabriel Winant (0000-0002-7454-1825, Yale University)
Ano2017
Volume4
Fascículo1
Páginas39-73
Data de publicação2017-03-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoCritical Historical Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 2326-4462 • E-ISSN: 2326-4470
EditoraUniversity of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1086/690968
OpenAlexW2607116429
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas2
Referências citadas25

This article places the 1959 steel strike—the largest work stoppage in US history—within the trajectory of the New Deal order. We provide a multiscalar account of the strike that stretches from the mills and corporate boardrooms, to Congress and the Oval Office, and back to the homes of steelworkers themselves. The strike crystallized the limits of postwar collective bargaining and Keynesian policy making to manage postwar economic growth. Those limitations allowed steelworkers to lay claim to the New Deal’s promise of industrial citizenship and defend the moral economy of their home life—but only for a brief time. Therefore, unpacking the steel strike along these lines recasts the entire New Deal order as a complex formation composed of multiple layers of social activity, each powered by its own internal dynamics, and each in contradictory relation to the others

Citizenship · Collective bargaining · Economics · Law and economics · New Deal · Order (exchange · Political science · Sociology · Work (physics · Engineering · Law · Political and Economic history of UK and US · Political Economy and Marxism · Race, History, and American Society · Finance · Industrial Relations · Mechanical Engineering