Congress of Industrial Organizations Reference library
Robert H. Zieger
The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Business, Labor, and Economic History
...late 1930s and early 1940s, the Roosevelt administration's diplomatic and military response to deepening international crises powerfully affected the CIO. Lewis believed that Roosevelt was leading the country into a war that would entangle the labor movement in a repressive bureaucratic apparatus. In late October 1940 the CIO chief shocked laborites when, on a national radio hookup, he announced his support for the Republican presidential candidate Wendell Willkie and urged union members to turn their backs on Roosevelt. At the CIO's annual convention in...
Chadwick, Edwin (1800–90) Reference library
The Biographical Dictionary of British Economists
...must also include an account of the hostility he generated: from local elites opposing the administrative bureaucracy he helped create, from the working classes who chafed against the heavy boot of the interventionist but unyielding state apparatus he produced, and from many contemporary scholars who highlight the repressive force of his reforms. BIBLIOGRAPHY Report on the Sanitary Condition of the Labouring Population of Great Britain (1842; repr. Edinburgh, 1965). ‘ The Means of Insurance Against Accidents ’, Westminster Review (1828), vol. 9, pp....
