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Book Synopsis Champions of Labor by : David F. Selvin
Download or read book Champions of Labor written by David F. Selvin and published by Criterion Books. This book was released on 1967 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the labor union movement in the United States traced through the influence and activities of William H. Sylvis, Terence V. Powderly, Samuel Gompers, Eugene V. Debs, William D. Haywood, William Green, John L. Lewis, Sidney Hillman, David Dublinsky, Philip Murray, Walter Reuther, George Meany, and A. Philip Randolph.
Book Synopsis Harry Van Arsdale, Jr. by : Gene Ruffini
Download or read book Harry Van Arsdale, Jr. written by Gene Ruffini and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-05-20 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harry Van Arsdale (1905-1986) was a towering figure in the New York labor scene. After being initiated into the Local 3 International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers in 1925 and becoming its business manager in 1933, Van Arsdale turned the then corrupt and disorganized union into a force to be reckoned with. He became president of the New York City Central Labor Council in 1957, which put him in a position to become a greater influence for labor relations locally and nationally. As business manager and president of these organizations, Van Arsdale advocated and won shorter work days, in order to give more men a chance to work - especially important in the 1930s. He instituted paid vacation, paid holidays, annuity plans, and educational opportunities for union workers - novelties at that time - as well as scholarships for workers' children. His sincere commitment to improving the lives of American workers and their families made him a truly beloved figure. This fascinating memoir traces Van Arsdale's sixty-plus years as a union member and powerful labor figure, and provides colorful details of his many remarkable accomplishments.
Book Synopsis Seventy Years of Life and Labor by : Samuel Gompers
Download or read book Seventy Years of Life and Labor written by Samuel Gompers and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Labor Unions - Champions of Social Justice by : Gregory Guthrie
Download or read book Labor Unions - Champions of Social Justice written by Gregory Guthrie and published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2010-04 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Labor Unions have given much to America. The great middle class that is the economic and social backbone of the United States has prospered due, in large part, to the rights that were fought for and won by the labor movement. Today, Union membership is not growing to the extent that it did in the past. Some claim that Unions are not needed in the modern world. Why would this be the case? The modern worker may carry a portable computer rather than a hammer, but businesses still work the way they did in yesteryear. If anything they seem to be less compassionate. This indicates that Unions are needed now more than ever. The Catholic Church has traditionally endorsed Labor Unions as a vehicle for advancing the plight of the worker. In this thesis, the papal iii encyclicals that provide the Church s foundation of the labor movement are shown. Several examples of corporate exploitation are given in an effort to demonstrate why unions are necessary today. International solidarity is shown by way of example also. The 2001 Right to Work (RTW) election in Oklahoma is analyzed in detail.
Book Synopsis American Labor Leaders by : Charles Allan Madison
Download or read book American Labor Leaders written by Charles Allan Madison and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Labor Unions by : Gregory George Guthrie
Download or read book Labor Unions written by Gregory George Guthrie and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Inside the Labor Movement by : Therese M. Shea
Download or read book Inside the Labor Movement written by Therese M. Shea and published by Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP. This book was released on 2017-12-15 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Its difficult for many young people to imagine not being able to go to school and instead having to work in a hot, smelly, sometimes dangerous factory for more than 12 hours a day. There was a time in U.S. history when young people had to do just that. Thankfully, many people involved in the labor movement fought against child labor. This was just one of many ways the movement improved rights for working people. This important volume presents a significant slice of American history, using primary sources, first-person narratives, and historical photographs to enlighten readers.
Book Synopsis The Armies of Labor by : Samuel Peter Orth
Download or read book The Armies of Labor written by Samuel Peter Orth and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lane Kirkland written by Arch Puddington and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2008-05-02 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The untold story of Lane Kirkland, labor leader and advocate for the American worker "This book tells the story of one of the true heroes of the struggle for freedom from totalitarianism. Through the skillful use of the power he exercised as the leader of American labor, and through his own unshakeable commitment, Lane Kirkland played a crucial role in our peaceful revolution in Poland. He did much more. Throughout the world, millions of free people owe him a debt of gratitude for his service to the democratic cause. I am gratified that the full account of his indispensable contribution to freedom has finally been written." --Lech Walesa, founder of Solidarity and former president of Poland "Lane Kirkland believed in freedom and would fight for his beliefs. Here is a portrait of his tough, principled, and consistent brand of leadership. We can admire him and learn from him." --George P. Schultz "I knew Lane Kirkland well. While he may not always have been able to secure the influence of the American labor movement he represented, he always supported the interests of the workers with great dedication and showed willingness to compromise. . . . [With] this biography, the man and his work will always be remembered. The book will also find considerable interest in Germany." --Helmut Schmidt, former chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany (1974?1982) "Lane was a crusader for freedom and I can testify on the basis of personal involvement that his role in the defeat of Stalinism was second to none." --Zbigniew Brzezinski, National Security Adviser to President Jimmy Carter
Book Synopsis The Armies of Labor by : Samuel Peter Orth
Download or read book The Armies of Labor written by Samuel Peter Orth and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Robeson, Labor's Forgotten Champion by : Charles H. Wright
Download or read book Robeson, Labor's Forgotten Champion written by Charles H. Wright and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis From the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend by : Priscilla Murolo
Download or read book From the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend written by Priscilla Murolo and published by The New Press. This book was released on 2018-08-28 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Newly updated: “An enjoyable introduction to American working-class history.” —The American Prospect Praised for its “impressive even-handedness”, From the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend has set the standard for viewing American history through the prism of working people (Publishers Weekly, starred review). From indentured servants and slaves in seventeenth-century Chesapeake to high-tech workers in contemporary Silicon Valley, the book “[puts] a human face on the people, places, events, and social conditions that have shaped the evolution of organized labor”, enlivened by illustrations from the celebrated comics journalist Joe Sacco (Library Journal). Now, the authors have added a wealth of fresh analysis of labor’s role in American life, with new material on sex workers, disability issues, labor’s relation to the global justice movement and the immigrants’ rights movement, the 2005 split in the AFL-CIO and the movement civil wars that followed, and the crucial emergence of worker centers and their relationships to unions. With two entirely new chapters—one on global developments such as offshoring and a second on the 2016 election and unions’ relationships to Trump—this is an “extraordinarily fine addition to U.S. history [that] could become an evergreen . . . comparable to Howard Zinn’s award-winning A People’s History of the United States” (Publishers Weekly). “A marvelously informed, carefully crafted, far-ranging history of working people.” —Noam Chomsky
Book Synopsis Seventy Years of Life and Labor by : Samuel Gompers
Download or read book Seventy Years of Life and Labor written by Samuel Gompers and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Labor Hall of Fame written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Men who Lead Labor by : Richard Bransten
Download or read book Men who Lead Labor written by Richard Bransten and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Nothing in the years of this turbulent decade has produced a greater stir than the labor developments of 1937. Cleavage of opinion and sympathy have been even sharper than in the presidential election of 1936. To thousands of people John L. Lewis of the C.I.O. is a magnificent patriot fighting for a noble cause--and to other thousands he wears horns and a tail. Opinion divides as sharply on the other leading figures of the labor world--William Green of the A.F. of L., Hutcheson of the Carpenters, Heywood Broun of the Newspaper Guild, Bridges of the West Coast. Minton and Stuart have produced in Men Who Lead Labor a series of candid biographies of these men in every day's news--men who are influencing thousands of destinies and the course of our national life. These biographical sketches are vivid and factual, written without fear or favor. In a very real sense this series of brilliant personal histories sketches also the inside story of labor's history during the past decades--a history that includes episodes of corruption and racketeering as well as honest struggle against rotten conditions."--dust jacket flap.
Download or read book Labor Says Let's Go! written by and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Beaten Down, Worked Up by : Steven Greenhouse
Download or read book Beaten Down, Worked Up written by Steven Greenhouse and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2019-08-06 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A page-turning book that spans a century of worker strikes.... Engrossing, character-driven, panoramic.” —The New York Times Book Review We live in an era of soaring corporate profits and anemic wage gains, one in which low-paid jobs and blighted blue-collar communities have become a common feature of our nation’s landscape. Behind these trends lies a little-discussed problem: the decades-long decline in worker power. Award-winning journalist and author Steven Greenhouse guides us through the key episodes and trends in history that are essential to understanding some of our nation’s most pressing problems, including increased income inequality, declining social mobility, and the concentration of political power in the hands of the wealthy few. He exposes the modern labor landscape with the stories of dozens of American workers, from GM employees to Uber drivers to underpaid schoolteachers. Their fight to take power back is crucial for America’s future, and Greenhouse proposes concrete, feasible ways in which workers’ collective power can be—and is being—rekindled and reimagined in the twenty-first century. Beaten Down, Worked Up is a stirring and essential look at labor in America, poised as it is between the tumultuous struggles of the past and the vital, hopeful struggles ahead. A PBS NewsHour Now Read This Book Club Pick
