{"product_id":"fraying-fabric-9780252086724","title":"Fraying Fabric","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Benton's work stands as a model history with a particular focus that expands in both breadth and chronology into a useful account for academics and contemporary policy makers. Highly recommended.\" --\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Benton brilliantly traces the politics and mistakes that marked the 1970s. . . A model of scholarship. Moreover, it is a work that must be read to understand the fall of the economic order by the 'new era of globalization' and the political consequences that accompanied it.\" --\u003ci\u003eNew York Labor History Association\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“James Benton engages with a complex topic that most labor historians have traditionally avoided: U.S. trade policy. An ambitious study taking us from the Roosevelt administration to the present, \u003ci\u003eFraying Fabric\u003c\/i\u003e traces the evolution of that policy, its ultimately devastating impact on the textile and apparel sectors, and the response of business and organized labor to the challenge of global trade. Its provocative arguments should provoke overdue debate in the fields of labor history and public policy.”--Eric Arnesen, author of \u003ci\u003eBrotherhoods of Color: Black Railroad Workers and the Struggle for Equality\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In \u003ci\u003eFraying Fabric: How Trade Policy and Industrial Decline Transformed America\u003c\/i\u003e, historian James C. Benton provides a richly detailed analysis of the impact of trade policy on textile and apparel manufacturing in the United States, and the ultimately unsuccessful efforts of unions in these closely related industries to limit the flow of imports.\" --\u003ci\u003eH-Net Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cp\u003e List of Abbreviations\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Introduction \u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFrom Free Trade to Populism: How Did We Get Here? 1974-2016\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eClashing Aims: The New Deal, Labor, and Tariff Reform, 1933-45\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNew Challenges: Labor’s Limits, International Recovery, and Industrial Decline, 1945-60\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNew Domestic and International Frontiers: John F. Kennedy, Labor, and Trade, 1961-63\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTrade Deals, Import Challenges, and Shifting Political Alliances, 1964-69\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFighting to Win: Organized Labor Challenges Trade Policy, 1969-70\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLabor Strikes Out: The Mills Bill, Burke-Hartke, and the Trade Act of 1974\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e Epilogue: Where Do We Go from Here?\u003cp\u003e Notes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Illinois Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400521916759,"sku":"9780252086724","price":21.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780252086724.jpg?v=1730470886","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/fraying-fabric-9780252086724","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}