Unions in Politics: Britain, Germany, and the United States in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries

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This book combines the tools of political science, sociology, and labor history to offer a wide-ranging analysis of how unions have participated in politics in Britain, Germany, and the United States. Rather than focus exclusively on national union federations, Gary Marks investigates variations among individual unions both within and across these

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"A rich study of union political activity that allows us to think through the influence of differing compositions of the labor force on national patterns of labor militancy."Charles Tilly, The New School for Social Research