Barry EidlinLabor and the Class Idea in the United States and Canada
Barry Eidlin is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at McGill University, Montréal. He is a comparative historical sociologist interested in the study of class, politics, social movements, and social change. His research has been published in the American Sociological Review, Politics & Society, Sociology Compass, and Labor History, among other venues, and has won awards from the American Sociological Association, the Labor and Employment Relations Association, and the Association for Canadian Studies in the United States. He also comments regularly in various media outlets on labor politics and policy.
Part I. Explaining Union Density Divergence: 1. Structural and individual explanations; 2. Policy explanations; 3. Working class power in the United States and Canada; Part II. Political Articulation and the Class Idea: 4. Party
class alliances in the United States and Canada, 1932
1948; 5. Repression and rebirth: red scares and labor's postwar identity, 1946
1972; 6. Class versus special interest: labor regimes and density divergence, 1911
2016; Appendix A: data; Appendix B: archival sources; Appendix C: permissions.
