"This is, quite simply, the most brilliant and original study of American labor to appear in a generation. Jonathan Cutler shows that the ascendancy of labor 'statesmen' and their ideology of political and industrial responsibility has meant not just the death of the shorter-hours movement, but also the end of the labor movement as a dynamic force in American life. ... Read moreIntroducing entirely new conceptions of work, power, desire, and freedom, Labor's Time is a monumental achievement."-Thaddeus Russell, Barnard College, and author of Out of the Jungle: Jimmy Hoffa and the Remaking of the American Working Class "The fight for shorter hours! Now there's a lost bit of American history that is in sore need of remembrance. Jonathan Cutler's perceptive and thoroughly researched history of one key part of that struggle deserves to be read and debated so that the fight against 'overwork' is once more near the top of America's social agenda."-Nelson Lichtenstein, author of Labor's War at Home: The CIO in World War II "Jonathan Cutler's book is essential reading for those concerned about the fate of America's overworked and underpaid workers. Labor's Time is an engaging and well-researched account of union struggles over work hours. At a moment when many employers are demanding longer workdays and 'shaving' hours from employees' time sheets, Cutler's book makes an important scholarly intervention into an issue whose history has profound implications for the present."-Thomas J. Sugrue, Bicentennial Class of 1940 Professor of History and Sociology, University of Pennsylvania "This is a very readable, engaging account of a critical moment in labor history."-Industrial Worker "In telling the story, Cutler raises bigger questions about democracy, power, and direction for the labor movement. His book is fascinating and informative, and it made me think."-Against The Current "Cutler is an expert guide... [his] enormous research into the intricacies of the internecine battles with the UAW over the thirty-hour workweek is important in its own right. His insightful and deeply researched study into the struggles compose the majority of his book."-Working USA "[B]rings a welcome focus to a very interesting issue in economic history... the author is quite good at establishing the political climate within the union and Local 600 where much of the story takes place."-EH.Net "Jonathan Cutler's spirited history of the fight for shorter hours in the auto industry offers us a combative narrative... my hat is off to him for coming closer than any other scholar in tracing the fortunes of the anti-Reuther left-communist, opportunist, syndicalist, African American-what for many years proclaimed itself the largest local union in the world."-Dissent Show Less