An Outline of the American Labor Movement
Author: Leo Wolman
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Published: 1923
Total Pages: 44
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Author: Leo Wolman
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Published: 1923
Total Pages: 44
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Rick Fantasia
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2004-06-16
Total Pages: 262
ISBN-13: 0520240901
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Author: Reed C. Richardson
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Published: 1975
Total Pages: 20
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Mary Ritter Beard
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Published: 1920
Total Pages: 194
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: United States. Social Security Board
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Published: 1944
Total Pages: 24
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Kevin Hillstrom
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Published: 2011
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780780811300
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProvides a detailed account of the American labor movement and explores the movement's lasting social, economic, and political impact into the modern era. Includes a narrative overview, biographical profiles, primary source documents, and other helpful features.
Author: Samuel Gompers
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Published: 1925
Total Pages: 288
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Nelson Lichtenstein
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2012-10-26
Total Pages: 353
ISBN-13: 1400838525
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn a fresh and timely reinterpretation, Nelson Lichtenstein examines how trade unionism has waxed and waned in the nation's political and moral imagination, among both devoted partisans and intransigent foes. From the steel foundry to the burger-grill, from Woodrow Wilson to John Sweeney, from Homestead to Pittston, Lichtenstein weaves together a compelling matrix of ideas, stories, strikes, laws, and people in a streamlined narrative of work and labor in the twentieth century. The "labor question" became a burning issue during the Progressive Era because its solution seemed essential to the survival of American democracy itself. Beginning there, Lichtenstein takes us all the way to the organizing fever of contemporary Los Angeles, where the labor movement stands at the center of the effort to transform millions of new immigrants into alert citizen unionists. He offers an expansive survey of labor's upsurge during the 1930s, when the New Deal put a white, male version of industrial democracy at the heart of U.S. political culture. He debunks the myth of a postwar "management-labor accord" by showing that there was (at most) a limited, unstable truce. Lichtenstein argues that the ideas that had once sustained solidarity and citizenship in the world of work underwent a radical transformation when the rights-centered social movements of the 1960s and 1970s captured the nation's moral imagination. The labor movement was therefore tragically unprepared for the years of Reagan and Clinton: although technological change and a new era of global economics battered the unions, their real failure was one of ideas and political will. Throughout, Lichtenstein argues that labor's most important function, in theory if not always in practice, has been the vitalization of a democratic ethos, at work and in the larger society. To the extent that the unions fuse their purpose with that impulse, they can once again become central to the fate of the republic. State of the Union is an incisive history that tells the story of one of America's defining aspirations.
Author: Philip Sheldon Foner
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHERS CO
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780717806522
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLabor and the Red Scare; Seattle and Winnipeg general strikes; Boston telephone and police strikes; Streetcar strikes in Chicago, Denver, Knoxville, Kansas City; strikes in clothing, textile, coal and steel; The open-shop drive; Strikes and Black-white relationships; the AFL and the Black worker; the IWW; Communist Party founded; Political action 1918-1920.
Author: William E. Forbath
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2009-07-01
Total Pages: 231
ISBN-13: 0674037081
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhy did American workers, unlike their European counterparts, fail to forge a class-based movement to pursue broad social reform? Was it simply that they lacked class consciousness and were more interested in personal mobility? In a richly detailed survey of labor law and labor history, William Forbath challenges this notion of American “individualism.” In fact, he argues, the nineteenth-century American labor movement was much like Europe’s labor movements in its social and political outlook, but in the decades around the turn of the century, the prevailing attitude of American trade unionists changed. Forbath shows that, over time, struggles with the courts and the legal order were crucial to reshaping labor’s outlook, driving the labor movement to temper its radical goals.