Acknowledgments

Many people assisted me in the process of researching and writing this book. It began as a dissertation at the University of Massachu­setts at Amherst where Robert Griffith and Bruce Laurie helped me think broadly about the role of business and labor in shaping Amer­ica's political culture. Since then, Charles McGovern, K. Austin Kerr, David Farber, and Gary Gerstle have read the manuscript at various stages and offered criticisms and suggestions that I hope have strengthened the work.

I am also indebted to the assistance provided by archivists and li­brarians at the Presbyterian Historical Society in Philadelphia, the Bentley Library at the University of Michigan, the Wisconsin Histor­ical Society, Labor-Management Documentation Center at Cornell University, Walter P. Reuther Library for Labor and Urban Affairs, Southern Labor Archives at Georgia State University, George Meany Memorial Archives, Historical Collections and Labor Archives at Penn­sylvania State University, the Library of Congress, the Ohio Histori­cal Society, and the Urban Archives Center at Temple University. I especially want to thank Michael Nash and Marjorie McNinch of the Hagley Museum and Library, Richard Strassberg of the Labor-Man­agement Documentation Center, Warner Pflug of the Reuther Library, Les Hough, formerly of the Southern Labor Archives and Peter Gott­lieb, formerly of the Historical Collections and Labor Archives at Penn State.

Financial aid from the Wayne State University Henry Kaiser Re­search Fellowship program, Radiological Consultants of West Virginia, West Virginia University Eberly College of Arts and Sciences Subven­tion Support program and West Virginia University Faculty Senate Research Grant program supported the work at various stages.

Friends, colleagues, and relatives who provided interest, encour­agement, and help in a variety of ways are Elliott Shore, Peter Albert, Stuart Kaufman, Ron Story, Jack Tager, Pat Greenfield, Beth Michael, Ron Lewis, Robert Blobaum, Jack McKivigan, Julie and El­liott Maizels, Greg Field, Tom Zeiler, Mark Leff, Robert McChesney, Dan Clawson and finally Sheri and Jerry Stahler who made doing re­search in Philadelphia and Wilmington lots of fun.

Most of all I want to thank Ken Fones-Woif. Ken patiently listened, prodded when necessary, and offered praise and encouragement that carried me through the whole process of writing a book. Moreover, he carefully read, critiqued, and improved each chapter more times than he cares to remember. It is to him that this book is dedicated.