| Any book as long in the making as this one owes debts to so many individuals and institutions that it is nearly impossible to acknowledge each and every one properly. The following acknowledgments represent, at best, a partial repayment of my many debts. |
| A summer fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities provided financial support at a crucial stage of the project. Binghamton University generously offered sabbatical and research leaves that enabled me to complete the book. A small grant from Binghamton University's Graduate School funded the final stage. |
| So many librarians and archivists offered assistance along the way that I cannot thank each one separately. Yet this book could not have been written without the aid of the staffs at the Herbert Hoover, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, and Dwight D. Eisenhower presidential libraries; the National Archives and its branch in Suitland, Maryland; the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, the Labor-Management Documentation Center at the Catherwood Library, New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University, Ithaca; the Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Walter P. Reuther Library, Wayne State University; and last, but certainly not least, those responsible for operating the interlibrary loan services at the Binghamton University library. I must also thank my colleague at University Publications of America, Randy Boehm, who worked with me at many of the libraries and archives cited above to microfilm trade union and government records that reveal much of the history of the state and labor in modern America. |
| From start to finish, numerous colleagues and graduate students have shared their own research and ideas with me. Readers will see immediately my enormous debt to Joseph McCartin and Colin Davis, who completed dissertations under my supervision on aspects of state-labor relations. Such other graduate students as Steven Burwood, Taylor Hollander, Patrizia Sione, Sandra Spingarn, Paul Street, Peter Friedlander, and Bryan Palmer, to name only a few, taught me a great deal about how to do history. During the summer of 1992, Sam White served as my research assistant, tutored me in the complexities of E-mail and other computer functions, and, most important, helped me finish the book. Robert Harris con- |
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