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Book Announcement: Why Is There No Labor Party in the United States? by Archer

By Lawrence Solum

Why Is There No Labor Party in the United States?
Robin Archer
 

To read the entire book description or the introduction, please visit: http://press.princeton.edu/titles/8668.html

Why is the United States the only advanced capitalist country with no labor party? This question is one of the great enduring puzzles of American political development, and it lies at the heart of a fundamental debate about the nature of American society. Tackling this debate head-on, Robin Archer puts forward a new explanation for why there is no American labor party--an explanation that suggests that much of the conventional wisdom about "American exceptionalism" is untenable.

"In an intriguing and elegant exposition of comparative history, Archer uses the labour politics of the 1890s in both countries to illustrate the similarities and the differences between the two societies . . . the innovative quality of Archer's approach, together with the clarity of its exposition, will unsettle established opinions and rejuvenate what has been a venerable debate into an altogether fresher controversy."--Michael Foley, Times Higher Education

Paper | $28.95 / £19.95 | ISBN: 978-0-691-14934-9
Cloth | 2008 | $39.95 / £27.95 | ISBN: 978-0-691-12701-9
e-Book | $28.95 | ISBN: 978-1-4008-3754-0

Full post as published by Legal Theory Blog on October 20, 2010 (boomark / email).