The Irish Labor Movement in the Nineteenth Century
Author: John W. Boyle
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Published: 1988
Total Pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780783791036
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Author: John W. Boyle
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Published: 1988
Total Pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780783791036
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: William Patrick Ryan
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Published: 1920
Total Pages: 312
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: W. P. RYAN
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Published: 2017-12-02
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780260358509
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExcerpt from The Irish Labor Movement: From the 'Twenties to Our Own Day In sooth to ignore the Gaelic element in the survey generally is to leave the story of Irish Labor in the last hundred years less than a half told tale. On a broad view we might well re gard that story, till the later stages at all events, as a painful and often a lamentable record. Con nolly has spoken of a Via Dolorosa extending through three centuries. For the Irish toilers the last of the three might seem in some respects thedrabbest of all drab in general, with, at several stages, the terrible excitement of tragedy. That View is to a large extent true, But it is not all the truth. The Gaelic workers, who were numerous in all the provinces in the first half of the nine teenth century, had a Vivid interior life of their own, and unless we realize and understand that life we have only a superficial knowledge of their real position and history. Granted that for generations, through the absence of regular edu cation and of the merest elements of fair play in other regards, the minds of the Gaelic toilers had ceased to grow or to be really creative, the fact remains that they retained an enlivening share of the traditional lore and culture; of romance and poetry, of song and racy wisdom. The story is the same from Iveragh to Oriel, from Ring to Donegal. All these quarters just mentioned, long into the nineteenth century and in a measure to our own time - were centers of Irish poetical and other mental cultivation; the poet and the story-teller in homely pride of place and honor. Their history, like that of many kindred quarters, has both charm and pathos; and if it were widely known, if it had seized the popular imagination, as some day it surely will, we would all have a deeper, a more human conception of hosts of Irish workers who have gone before us. There would be not a little of glorious pride and sorrow inour minds as we looked back to their days and destinies. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Scott Molloy
Publisher: UPNE
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9781584656906
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1847 Joseph Banigan, an Irish Potato Famine refugee, established himself in Rhode Island as an entrepreneur. This was a time when "No Irish Need Apply" signs abounded and discrimination against the Irish and other immigrants--institutionalized in the constitution of his adopted state--hindered voting and other human rights. Bucking this trend and belying his humble origins, Banigan succeeded spectacularly in the emerging local rubber footwear industry, becoming the president of the United States Rubber Company--one of the nation's major cartels, and New England's first Irish-Catholic millionaire. Backed by primary and secondary research on two continents, Molloy's inquiry into Bannigan's notoriety and success singularly codifies and elucidates the Irish-American experience during this critical period in American labor history.
Author: John William Boyle
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Published: 1988
Total Pages: 408
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Seamus P. Metress
Publisher: MSU Press
Published: 2006-05-18
Total Pages: 142
ISBN-13: 1609170725
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIrish immigration to the United States can be divided into five general periods, from 1640 to the present: the colonial, prestarvation, great starvation, post-starvation, and post- independence periods. Immigration to the Great Lakes region and, more specifically, to Michigan was differentially influenced during each of these times. The oppressive historical roots of the Irish in both Ireland and nineteenth century America are important to understand in gaining an appreciation for their concern with socioeconomic status. The Irish first entered the Great Lakes by way of the Ohio River and Appalachian passes, spreading north along the expanding frontier. After the War of 1812, the Irish were heavily represented in frontier military garrisons. Many Irish moved into the Detroit metropolitan area as well as to farming areas throughout Michigan. In the 1840s, a number of Irish began fishing in the waters off Beaver Island, Mackinac Island, Bay City, Saginaw, and Alpena. From 1853 to 1854, Irish emigrants from the Great Starvation dug the Ste. Marie Canal while others dug canals in Grand Rapids and Saginaw. Irish nationalism in both Michigan and the United States has been closely linked with the labor movement in which Irish Americans were among the earliest organizers and leaders. Irish American nationalism forced the Irish regardless of their local Irish origins to assume a larger Irish identity. Irish Americans have a long history of involvement in the struggle for Irish Freedom dating from the 1840s. As Patrick Ford, editor of Irish World has said, America led the Irish from the "littleness of countyism into a broad feeling of nationalism."
Author: W. P. (William Patrick) Ryan
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Published: 2012-08
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9781290443586
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Bruce Laurie
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780252066603
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the only modern study synthesizing nineteenth-century American labor history, Bruce Laurie examines the character of working-class factionalism, plebian expectations of government, and relations between the organized few and the unorganized many. Laurie also examines the republican tradition and the movements that drew on it, from the General Trades Unions in the age of Jackson to the Knights of Labor later in the century.
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.
Author: David Montgomery
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1995-03-31
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780521483803
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDiscusses the relationship between workers and the government by focusing not on the legal regulation of unions and strikes, but on popular struggles for citizenship rights.