| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 112.4

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| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 112.4 | The History Cooperative

Josiah Barlett Lambert. "If the Workers Took a Notion": The Right to Strike and American Political Development. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press. 2006. Pp. x, 259. Cloth $49.95, paper $19.95.
This book roots the shift in modern labor policy and the declining position of labor in American life within liberalism's inability to embrace collective rights, such as the right to strike. Josiah Bartlett Lambert traces legal, political, and philosophical assumptions about the right to strike to develop a compelling model for a renewed social citizenship that connects communities and workplaces.	1
Lambert starts with a compelling question: "How did one of the most militant labor movements become cowed, with a strike rate today a mere one-tenth of what it was a generation ago?" (p. 4). The answer to this question is found in modern liberalism, which "transformed the right to strike from what had been a stalwart citizenship right, focused on civic republican principles, into a tentative and conditional commercial right" (p. 5).	. . .

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