The New Men of Power: America's Labor Leaders

"When C. Wright Mills published The New Men of Power in 1948, hethought labor leaders a new strategic elite and the unions a set of vanguard organizations that were crucial to ""stopping the main drift towards war and slump."" Today, as the unions once again seek to play a decisive role in American life, Mills' remarkable probe into the structure and ideology of mid-twentieth-century trade unionism remains essential reading. A new introduction by historian Nelson Lichtenstein offers insight into the Millsian political world at the time he wrote The New Men of Power."C. Wright Mills is the author of 'The New Men of Power: America's Labor Leaders', published 2001 under ISBN 9780252069482 and ISBN 025206948X.