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Book Review | The Journal of American History, 86.1 | The History Cooperative

Making American Industry Safe for Democracy: Comparative Perspectives on the State and Employee Representation in the Era of World War I. By Jeffrey Haydu. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1997. x, 261 pp. Cloth, $49.95, isbn 0-252-02289-0. Paper, $21.95, isbn 0-252-06628-6.)

Labor historians' turn to social and cultural history in recent years has opened the field's more traditional institutionalist perspective to others—political scientists, sociologists, and legal scholars. The result has been an institutional study of labor enlivened by sophisticated attention to state structure and the nuances of organizational form and strategy, keen appreciation of the impact of class forces in political and industrial organization, and a desire to construct and test generalizations. Sociologist Jeffrey Haydu's crisp, authoritative, persuasive, and conceptually elegant book reveals the advantages to both sides of social scientists' intersection with labor history. . . .

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