A New Deal for All?

“Andor Skotnes’ argument - that the labor and freedom movements in Baltimore were connected in interesting and complex ways during the critical period under discussion - is intellectually sound and quite innovative. Well-researched and cogently argued, A New Deal for All? details and analyzes the political relationships between these two movements with enormous skill. Skotnes demonstrates that it was the most radical members of the workers’ movement who pressed a principled antiracist agenda, thereby creating a wedge in the pervasive racism of the time.” - Linda Shopes, coeditor of The Baltimore Book: New Views of Local History.

Andor Skotnes is Professor of History at The Sage Colleges.