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Akron native and former U.S. Representative John F. Seiberling (1918-2008) grew up on his family's estate overlooking Ohio's Cuyahoga River Valley. Within his lifetime, Seiberling would become a leading player in the movement to protect the natural environment and help transform his childhood playground into the federally protected Cuyahoga Valley National Park.

A Passion for the Land begins with a fast-moving narrative of Seiberling's early life and a vivid description of...

In 1900 the manufacture of rubber products in the United States was concentrated in several hundred small plants around New York and Boston that employed low-paid immigrant workers with no intervention from unions. By the mid-1930s, thanks to the automobile and the Depression, production was concentrated in Ohio, the labor force was largely native born and highly paid, and labor organizations had a decisive influence on the industry. Daniel Nelson tells the story of these changes as a case study of union growth against a background of critical developments in twentieth-century economic...

"Nelson... is] one of the country's leading labor scholars.... His] work provides an invaluable... guide to understanding a critical region...." --Ohio History

..". I learned quite a lot from reading Farm and Factory, and this will certainly be the case for all who pick up this valuable and informative book." --Minnesota History

..". a valuable source for anyone concerned with regional and national tendencies in labor relations and ecomomic change over the last century." --American Political Science Review

..". a useful and well written synthesis of labor history in the...

The 1980s and 1990s have witnessed a wave of democratization across the world. This trend has led to some basic questions about the future of democracy and its ability to survive. This theme is examined from two focal points--that of praxis and that of security.

Major theorists such as Robert Dahl and noted democractic leaders such as former Argentine President Raul Alfonsin join forces to spell out the essential ingredients for avoiding disaster in transitional periods of post-authoritarian states. This edited collection challenges some of the existing views about democratization...