The Labor Intellectuals.

  • Published In: Dissent (0012-3846), 2024, v. 71, n. 2. P. 94 1 of 3

  • Database: Academic Search Ultimate 2 of 3

  • Authored By: Lichtenstein, Nelson 3 of 3

Abstract

After visiting the United Auto Workers convention in Atlantic City in 1947, C. Wright Mills wrote that the most impressive thing about the union was "the spectacle it affords of ideas in live contact with power." While he considered union president Walter Reuther a dynamic leader, Mills was more impressed with the team of young men around him, the labor intellectuals who translated the radicalism and democratic enthusiasms of a boisterous rank and file into a set of concrete programs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Additional Information

  • Source:Dissent (0012-3846). 2024/04, Vol. 71, Issue 2, p94
  • Document Type:Article
  • Subject Area:History
  • Publication Date:2024
  • ISSN:0012-3846
  • DOI:10.1353/dss.2024.a929033
  • Accession Number:177942730
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