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Boyle's work challenges the notion set out by authors like Lichtenstein, Dawley, and Katznelson that the Walter Reuther's UAW became stale and larthargic after the purge of the left and the CIO's merger with the AFL. Instead, Boyle argues, Reuther and the UAW leadership maintained their traditional roots to the Debsian Socialist Party and continued to push for a social democratic vision of the United States, though they had abandoned achieving it through building a rank n file union movement and...
The short version of Boyle's argument is that unions (particularly the UAW) did not give up on the social democratic vision and still fought for it during the middle of the 20th century, even though they had to compromise because of the political constraints they were operating within.Boyle wrote this book in response to cynicism towards an activist state, in order “to show the vitality of a political culture that believed government could act in the public good” (ix). In contrast to “the emergi...
