| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.4

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Book Review

Schools of Democracy: A Political History of the American Labor Movement. By Clayton Sinyai. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2006. x, 292 pp. Cloth, $55.00, ISBN 978-0-8014-4455-5. Paper, $22.50, ISBN 970-0-8014-7299-2.)
Clayton Sinyai surveys the political history of the labor movement from the Gilded Age through the 1968 presidential election and provides interesting discussions of important labor movement debates. A postscript surveys the recent period. The book is a philosophical rumination on the merits of craft unions, which "conserved the workers' civic virtues in the face of a new political economy designed to degrade and insult them" (p. 49).	1
Sinyai surveys theories of republicanism and democracy from Aristotle to Alexis de Tocqueville, noting their tendency to characterize manual workers as lacking the necessary independence to be good citizens or as greedy people using "government to pursue vulgar material needs" (p. 5). Union leaders, he asserts without providing much evidence, were influenced by those ideas and sought to use their organizations as "schools of democracy," training workers in civic virtues.	. . .

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