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"We Are All Leaders"
The Alternative Unionism of the Early 1930s
Häftad, 1996
312 kr
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Contains the Bryant Spann Memorial Prize in Literature for 1997, an award-winning essay, "The Very Last Hurrah" by Eric Leif DavinThis collection of articles delves into the little-known community-based unionism of the 1930s. Worlds apart from bureaucratic business unions like the AFL-CIO, these …
To Live Here, You Have to Fight
How Women Led Appalachian Movements for Social Justice
Inbunden, 2018
1241 kr
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Launched in 1964, the War on Poverty quickly took aim at the coalfields of southern Appalachia. There, the federal government found unexpected allies among working-class white women devoted to a local tradition of citizen caregiving and seasoned by decades of activism and community service. Jessica …
Struggle for the Soul of the Postwar South
White Evangelical Protestants and Operation Dixie
Av Ken Fones-Wolf, Elizabeth A. Fones-Wolf
Häftad, 2015
339 kr
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In 1946, the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) undertook Operation Dixie, an initiative to recruit industrial workers in the American South. Elizabeth and Ken Fones-Wolf plumb rarely used archival sources and rich oral histories to explore the CIO's fraught encounter with the evangelical …
Working-Class America
Essays on Labor, Community, and American Society
Av Michael H Frisch, Daniel J Walkowitz
Häftad, 1982
368 kr
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At the time of its original publication, Working-Class America represented the new labor history par excellence. A roster of noteworthy scholars in the field contribute original essays written during a pivotal time in the nation's history and within the discipline. Moving beyond …
Lives of Their Own
Blacks, Italians, and Poles in Pittsburgh, 1900-1960
Av John Bodnar, Roger Simon m. fl.
Häftad, 1983
426 kr
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Lives of Their Own depicts the strikingly different lives of black, Italian, and Polish immigrants in Pittsburgh. Within a comparative framework, the book focuses on the migration process itself, job procurement, and occupational mobility, family structure, home-ownership, and neighborhood …
Labor Leaders in America
Av Melvyn Dubofsky, Warren Van Van Tine
Häftad, 1987
424 kr
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Here are the life stories of the men and women who led the labor movement in America from Reconstruction to recent times, from William H. Sylvis, the first major labor leader, to Cesar Chavez, who organized California's farm workers in the 1960s. In each profile, a leading authority provides a …
Gender at Work
The Dynamics of Job Segregation by Sex During World War II
Av Ruth Milkman
Häftad, 1987
428 kr
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Winner of the Joan Kelly Memorial Prize in Women's History, the American Historical Association, 1987. Winner of the SOCIALIST REVIEW Book AwardWomen's entry into so-called men's work during World War II sparked conflicts at the time and when men returned at war's end. Ruth Milkman delves into the …
Spirit of 1848
German Immigrants, Labor Conflict, and the Coming of the Civil War
Av Bruce Levine
Inbunden, 1992
542 kr
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Immigrants and their children became the chief component of the U.S. working class during the nineteenth century. Bruce Levine examines the early years of this social transformation, focusing on German-born craft workers and the key roles they played in the economic and political life of the …
Duquesne and the Rise of Steel Unionism
Inbunden, 2001
686 kr
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Dismissed as a flimsy front for management interests, industrial unions nonetheless carved out a role in the Carnegie Steel Company empire and then at U.S. Steel. James D. Rose examines the pivotal role played by these company-sponsored employee representation plans (ERPs) at the legendary steel …
After the Strike
A Century of Labor Struggle at Pullman
Inbunden, 2003
643 kr
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The 1894 Pullman strike and the rise of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters played major roles in the century-long development of union organizing and labor-management relations in the Pullman Company. Susan Eleanor Hirsch connects the stories of Pullman car builders and porters to answer …
Waterfront Revolts
New York and London Dockworkers, 1946-61
Inbunden, 2003
585 kr
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During the decade that followed World War II, American and British dockworkers undertook a series of militant revolts against their employers, their governments, and even their union leaderships. In this in-depth comparative study, Colin Davis explores the upheavals on both sides of the Atlantic. …
James P. Cannon and the Origins of the American Revolutionary Left, 1890-1928
Inbunden, 2007
1451 kr
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Bryan D. Palmer's award-winning study of James P. Cannon's early years (1890-1928) details how the life of a Wobbly hobo agitator gave way to leadership in the emerging communist underground of the 1919 era. This historical drama unfolds alongside the life experiences of a native son of United …
Wobblies on the Waterfront
Interracial Unionism in Progressive-Era Philadelphia
Av Peter Cole
Inbunden, 2007
1278 kr
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During the 1910s and 1920s, the Philadelphia waterfront was home to the most durable interracial, multiethnic union seen in the United States prior to the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) era. For much of its time, Local 8's majority was African American and included immigrants from …
Labor's Cold War
Local Politics in a Global Context
Inbunden, 2008
1451 kr
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Examining the impact of American Cold War politics on disparate local arenas, Labor's Cold War reveals that anticommunist challenges reshaped local political cultures and set the stage for new rounds of political debate. The contributors demonstrate that the anticommunist movement was more diverse, …
Power Among Them
Bessie Abramowitz Hillman and the Making of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America
Inbunden, 2008
618 kr
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Karen Pastorello's pathbreaking biography of Bessie Abramowitz Hillman places this remarkable labor leader and Progressive Era activist at the center of the founding of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America. Bridging the gap between Progressive social feminism and the labor feminists of the …
Teachers and Reform
Chicago Public Education, 1929-70
Inbunden, 2008
614 kr
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From the union's formation in 1937 until the 1960s, the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) was the largest and most influential teachers' union in the country. John F. Lyons examines the role of public schoolteachers and the CTU in shaping the policies and practices of public education in Chicago. …
Shadow of the Racketeer
Scandal in Organized Labor
Av David Witwer
Inbunden, 2009
1451 kr
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Shadow of the Racketeer: Scandal in Organized Labor tells the story of organized crime's move into labor racketeering in the 1930s, focusing on a union corruption scandal involving payments from the largest Hollywood movie studios to the Chicago mob to ensure a pliant labor supply for their …
Making Capitalism Safe
Workplace Safety and Health Regulation in America, 1880-1940
Inbunden, 2009
732 kr
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Workplaces in the United States are safer today than they were 120 years ago. In this book, Donald W. Rogers attributes this improvement partly to the development in the Progressive Era of surprisingly strong state-level work safety and health regulatory agencies, a patchwork of commissions and …
Guest Workers and Resistance to U.S. Corporate Despotism
Inbunden, 2011
1241 kr
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Political scientist Immanuel Ness thoroughly investigates the use of guest workers in the United States, the largest recipient of migrant labor in the world. Ness argues that the use of migrant labor is increasing in importance and represents despotic practices calculated by key U.S. business …
Gleanings of Freedom
Free and Slave Labor Along the Mason-Dixon Line, 1790-1860
Av Max Grivno
Inbunden, 2011
1278 kr
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Late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century landowners in the hinterlands of Baltimore, Maryland, cobbled together workforces from a diverse labor population of black and white apprentices, indentured servants, slaves, and hired workers. This book examines the intertwined lives of the poor …
Renegade Union
Interracial Organizing and Labor Radicalism
Inbunden, 2012
672 kr
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Dedicated to organizing workers from diverse racial, ethnic, and religious backgrounds, many of whom were considered "unorganizable" by other unions, the progressive New York City-based labor union District 65 counted among its 30,000 members retail clerks, office workers, warehouse workers, and …
Palomino
Clinton Jencks and Mexican-American Unionism in the American Southwest
Inbunden, 2013
752 kr
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The first comprehensive biography of progressive labor organizer, peace worker, and economist Clinton Jencks (1918–2005), this book explores the life of one of the most important political and social activists to appear in the Southwestern United States in the twentieth century. A key figure in the …
Man of Fire
Selected Writings
Av Ernesto Galarza, Rodolfo Torres m. fl.
Inbunden, 2013
1621 kr
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Activist, labor scholar, and organizer Ernesto Galarza (1905–1984) was a leading advocate for Mexican Americans and one of the most important Mexican American scholars and activists after World War II. This volume gathers Galarza's key writings, reflecting an intellectual rigor, conceptual clarity, …
Contest of Ideas
Capital, Politics and Labor
Inbunden, 2013
1451 kr
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For more than thirty years Nelson Lichtenstein has deployed his scholarship--on labor, politics, and social thought--to chart the history and prospects of a progressive America. A Contest of Ideas collects and updates many of Lichtenstein's most provocative and controversial essays and reviews. …
Rise of the Chicago Police Department
Class and Conflict, 1850-1894
Av Sam Mitrani
Inbunden, 2013
1278 kr
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Class turmoil, labor, and law and order in Chicago In this book, Sam Mitrani cogently examines the making of the police department in Chicago, which by the late 1800s had grown into the most violent, turbulent city in America. Chicago was roiling with political and economic conflict, much of it …
Redeeming Time
Protestantism and Chicago's Eight-Hour Movement, 1866-1912
Inbunden, 2014
680 kr
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During the struggle for the eight-hour workday and a shorter workweek, Chicago emerged as an important battleground for workers in "the entire civilized world" to redeem time from the workplace in order to devote it to education, civic duty, health, family, and leisure. William A. Mirola explores …
Struggle for the Soul of the Postwar South
White Evangelical Protestants and Operation Dixie
Av Ken Fones-Wolf, Elizabeth A. Fones-Wolf
Inbunden, 2015
1278 kr
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In 1946, the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) undertook Operation Dixie, an initiative to recruit industrial workers in the American South. Elizabeth and Ken Fones-Wolf plumb rarely used archival sources and rich oral histories to explore the CIO's fraught encounter with the evangelical …
Death and Dying in the Working Class, 1865-1920
Inbunden, 2015
1278 kr
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Michael K. Rosenow investigates working people's beliefs, rituals of dying, and the politics of death by honing in on three overarching questions: How did workers, their families, and their communities experience death? Did various identities of class, race, gender, and religion coalesce to form …
Free Labor
The Civil War and the Making of an American Working Class
Inbunden, 2015
1278 kr
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Monumental and revelatory, Free Labor explores labor activism throughout the country during a period of incredible diversity and fluidity: the American Civil War. Mark A. Lause describes how the working class radicalized during the war as a response to economic crisis, the political opportunity …
Immigrants Against the State
Yiddish and Italian Anarchism in America
Inbunden, 2015
1409 kr
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From the 1880s through the 1940s, tens of thousands of first- and second-generation immigrants embraced the anarchist cause after arriving on American shores. Kenyon Zimmer explores why these migrants turned to anarchism, and how their adoption of its ideology shaped their identities, experiences, …
