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Crisis and political beliefs : the case of the Colt Firearms strike /

Does the political thinking of ordinary citizens change during periods of crisis? Marc Lendler addresses this question by investigating the story behind an unusually prolonged and ultimately successful strike - a five-year conflict at the Colt Firearms Company in Hartford, Connecticut, in the 1980s....

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Lendler, Marc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, 1997.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 1. The Times That Try Men's Souls
  • 2. Irrepressible Conflict
  • 3. A Rather Substantial Commitment
  • 4. A General Attention to Public Affairs
  • 5. Horatio Alger to Robin Hood
  • 6. Reconstructing the Political Spectacle
  • 7. A Vernal Morning, and the Day After.