TY - JOUR
AU - Shannon, David A.
AB - 6 Reviews of Books 7 4 American life than many of their predecessors. It can be maintained with some cogency, moreover, that the generation of the twenties administered the necessary shock to the shallowly optimistic and conventional America of the preceding period. The twenties have their lesson for us today. Were we recently again in a period of ineffable complacency so far as our political and business leaders were concerned? The answer to this question is not to be deduced from pre-election speeches. It is to be deduced from the willingness of the rank and file of the nation to face up to the complex problems of our own time. Rochester, New York DEXTER PERKINS THE CIO CHALLENGE TO THE AFL: A HISTORY OF THE AMERI­ CAN LABOR MOVEMENT, 1935-1941. By Walter Galenson. [Wertheim Publications in Industrial Relations.] (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Univer­ sity Press. 1960. Pp. xix, 73 2 • $9.75.) THIS ambitious compendium begins with a chapter on the founding of the CIa and its difficulties with the AFL. It moves on to a chapter each on unionism in particular industries, steel, autos, coal, rubber, meat, petroleum, construction, etc., and ends with a chapter designed to pick up 
TI - The CIO Challenge to the AFL: A History of the American Labor Movement, 1935–1941. By Walter Galenson. [Wertheim Publications in Industrial Relations.] (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. 1960. Pp. xix, 732. $9.75.)
JO - The American Historical Review
DO - 10.1086/ahr/66.3.764
DA - 1961-04-01
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SP - 764
EP - 765
VL - 66
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