Moscow, Nauka Publ. 1983. 175 p. The book by I. M. Savelyeva, a researcher at the Institute of International Labor Movement of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Candidate of Historical Sciences, attempts a comprehensive analysis of the ideological and political content, methodological basis, and most important stages in the evolution of bourgeois-reformist concepts of trade unionism in the United States during the XX century in comparison with the concepts of other bourgeois trends. The scientific and socio-political significance of studying this problem is determined by the fact that the views of bourgeois ideologists and theorists on the trade union movement serve as the basis for developing social policies of the ruling circles aimed at integrating trade unions into the system of institutions of capitalist society, at suppressing, neutralizing or using professional organizations of the proletariat in the interests of the bourgeoisie. The monograph describes a complex and contradictory picture of the formation and evolution of the bourgeois-reformist approach to the problems of relations between labor and capital. The author traces the thorny path of development of American trade unions, not all groups of which have managed to rise to the acceptance of the idea of class struggle and are under the influence of anti-Sovietism and anti-communism. Having analyzed a wide range of works of bourgeois researchers, the author offers a scientifically grounded periodization of the stages of formation of the liberal-reformist approach, which began to take shape in the late 19th century in the general course of the social policy of the ruling class of the United States. This approach made its way in the fight against conservative and" hard individualist "concepts that treat the trade union as a "monopoly" and"violence against the worker's personality". The author identifies the Wisconsin (historical and economic) and Baltimore (structural and administrative) schools, as well as so ... Read more