James C. Benton is director of the Race and Economic Empowerment Project at the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor at Georgetown University.
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Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction From Free Trade to Populism: How Did We Get Here? 1974-2016 Clashing Aims: The New Deal, Labor, and Tariff Reform, 1933-45 New Challenges: Labor's Limits, International Recovery, and Industrial Decline, 1945-60 New Domestic and International Frontiers: John F. Kennedy, Labor, and Trade, 1961-63 Trade Deals, Import Challenges, and Shifting Political Alliances, 1964-69 Fighting to Win: Organized Labor Challenges Trade Policy, 1969-70 Labor Strikes Out: The Mills Bill, Burke-Hartke, and the Trade Act of 1974 Epilogue: Where Do We Go from Here? Notes Index
"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, Fraying Fabric 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 Brotherhoods of Color: Black Railroad Workers and the Struggle for Equality