Broken Promise

"(H)is well-researched, in-depth study makes an important contribution to understanding the development of labor policy in the Taft-Hartley era and poses questions about how to achieve a policy that gives meaning to the right to organize and to engage in concerted activities." —Labor Studies Journal

"Resting on exhaustive research in (NLRB) files and other relevant archives and on the results of a massive oral history project that James Gross has directed, (Broken Promise) is a unique and authoritative study... (it) stands as a monumental work of scholarship." —Reviews in American History

"...this study is thoroughly researched, carefully constructed, and clearly written. ...he has posed a fundamental challenge to the standard interpretation that organized labor made a 'Faustian bargain' with corporate America in the postwar era." —The American Historical Review

"...makes another important contribution to labor history and industrial relations by carefully tracing the radical shifts in United States labor policy since World War II." —Journal of American History