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Author : Vincent J. Falzone
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Terence V. Powderly, Middle Class Reformer written by Vincent J. Falzone and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Melvyn Dubofsky
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252013430
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (134 download)
Download or read book Labor Leaders in America written by Melvyn Dubofsky and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here are the life stories of the men and women who have 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. All of the chapters have been written expressly for this volume by leading authorities, several of whom are authors of booklength biographies of their subjects. Taken together these readable yet authoritative life studies provide a broad overview of the American labor movement that will appeal to the student and lay reader as well as to the specialist in social history and labor and industrial relations.
Author : Bruce Laurie
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252066603
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (666 download)
Download or read book Artisans Into Workers written by Bruce Laurie and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 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 : Vincent J. Falzone
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Total Pages : 746 pages
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Download or read book Terence V. Powderly, Mayor and Labor Leader, 1849-1893 written by Vincent J. Falzone and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 746 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Craig Phelan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1567508847
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (675 download)
Download or read book Grand Master Workman written by Craig Phelan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2000-01-30 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Noble Order of the Knights of Labor was the most ambitious and significant labor organization of the Gilded Age. As the charismatic leader of this group, Terence Powderly was America's first nationally known labor leader, the first to achieve a high degree of recognition from working people, industrialists, and politicians across the continent. To most Americans, Powderly was the Knights of Labor. Based on an exhaustive examination of Powderly's voluminous correspondence, this book offers a critical analysis of Powderly's efforts to oversee the most spectacular experiment in class-wide solidarity ever undertaken. Phelan paints a sympathetic and probing portrait of a complex figure caught up in the whirlwind of local and national events. He details the challenges and pressures of labor leadership at a time when industrialization was convulsing the nation, and when the labor movement was struggling to build a viable national institution capable of creating a more egalitarian society. The national focus of this study helps to synthesize the numerous community studies written on the Knights in recent years and offers fresh perspectives on the ultimate meaning of the organization. It is the first detailed examination of the Knights' leadership since the Powderly and Hayes Papers have become available.
Author : United States. Department of Labor. Library
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Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book Labor Literature written by United States. Department of Labor. Library and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bonnie Stepenoff
Publisher : Susquehanna University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781575910284
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (12 download)
Download or read book Their Fathers' Daughters written by Bonnie Stepenoff and published by Susquehanna University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social reformers of the early twentieth century drew attention to the tender age of many of the silk workers. Through the last decades of the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth, these female workers struggled to establish themselves, not as childlike victims, but as independent women, capable of finding their own way in the world and standing up for their own rights."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Cindy Hahamovitch
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807846391
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (463 download)
Download or read book The Fruits of Their Labor written by Cindy Hahamovitch and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1933 Congress granted American laborers the right of collective bargaining, but farmworkers got no New Deal. Cindy Hahamovitch's pathbreaking account of migrant farmworkers along the Atlantic Coast shows how growers enlisted the aid of the state in an unprecedented effort to keep their fields well stocked with labor. This is the story of the farmworkers_Italian immigrants from northeastern tenements, African American laborers from the South, and imported workers from the Caribbean_who came to work in the fields of New Jersey, Georgia, and Florida in the decades after 1870. These farmworkers were not powerless, the author argues, for growers became increasingly open to negotiation as their crops ripened in the fields. But farmers fought back with padrone or labor contracting schemes and 'work-or-fight' forced-labor campaigns. Hahamovitch describes how growers' efforts became more effective as federal officials assumed the role of padroni, supplying farmers with foreign workers on demand. Today's migrants are as desperate as ever, the author concludes, not because poverty is an inevitable feature of modern agricultural work, but because the federal government has intervened on behalf of growers, preventing farmworkers from enjoying the fruits of their labor.
Author : Hoyt N. Wheeler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521893541
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (935 download)
Download or read book The Future of the American Labor Movement written by Hoyt N. Wheeler and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-09-16 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description
Author : James S. Olson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1610696980
Total Pages : 737 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (16 download)
Download or read book American Economic History written by James S. Olson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2015-04-28 with total page 737 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering figures, events, policies, and organizations, this comprehensive reference tool enhances readers' appreciation of the role economics has played in U.S. history since 1776. A study of the U.S. economy is important to understanding U.S. politics, society, and culture. To make that study easier, this dictionary offers concise essays on more than 1,200 economics-related topics. Entries cover a broad array of pivotal information on historical events, legislation, economic terms, labor unions, inventions, interest groups, elections, court cases, economic policies and philosophies, economic institutions, and global processes. Economics-focused biographies and company profiles are featured as sidebars, and the work also includes both a chronology of major events in U.S. economic history and a selective bibliography. Encompassing U.S. history since 1776 with an emphasis on recent decades, entries range from topics related to the early economic formation of the republic to those that explore economic aspects of information technology in the 21st century. The work is written to be clearly understood by upper-level high school students, but offers sufficient depth to appeal to undergraduates. In addition, the general public will be attracted by informative discussions of everything from clean energy to what keeps interest rates low.
Author : Erika Lee
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807863130
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)
Download or read book At America's Gates written by Erika Lee and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2004-01-21 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, Chinese laborers became the first group in American history to be excluded from the United States on the basis of their race and class. This landmark law changed the course of U.S. immigration history, but we know little about its consequences for the Chinese in America or for the United States as a nation of immigrants. At America's Gates is the first book devoted entirely to both Chinese immigrants and the American immigration officials who sought to keep them out. Erika Lee explores how Chinese exclusion laws not only transformed Chinese American lives, immigration patterns, identities, and families but also recast the United States into a "gatekeeping nation." Immigrant identification, border enforcement, surveillance, and deportation policies were extended far beyond any controls that had existed in the United States before. Drawing on a rich trove of historical sources--including recently released immigration records, oral histories, interviews, and letters--Lee brings alive the forgotten journeys, secrets, hardships, and triumphs of Chinese immigrants. Her timely book exposes the legacy of Chinese exclusion in current American immigration control and race relations.
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Total Pages : 696 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Labor Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Clark D. Halker
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252017476
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (174 download)
Download or read book For Democracy, Workers, and God written by Clark D. Halker and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edwin L. Battistella
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190050918
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Dangerous Crooked Scoundrels written by Edwin L. Battistella and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-11 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Insulting the president is an American tradition. From Washington to Trump, presidents have been called "lazy," "feeble," "pusillanimous," and more. Our leaders have been derided as "ignoramuses," "idiots," "morons," and "fatheads," and have been compared to all manner of animals--worms and whales and hyenas, sad jellyfish, strutting crows, lap dogs, reptiles, and monkeys. Political insults tell us what we value in our leaders by showing how we devalue them. In Dangerous Crooked Scoundrels, linguist Edwin Battistella collects over five hundred insults aimed at American presidents. Covering the broad sweep of American history, he puts insults in their place-the political and cultural context of their times. Along the way, Battistella illustrates the recurring themes of political insults: too little intellect or too much, inconsistency or obstinacy, worthlessness, weakness, dishonesty, sexual impropriety, appearance, and more. The kinds of insults we use suggest what our culture finds most hurtful, and reveal society's changing prejudices as well as its most enduring ones. How we insult presidents and how they react tells us about the presidents, but it also tells us about our nation's politics. Readers discover how the style of insults evolves in different historical periods: gone are "apostate," "mountebank," "flathead," and "doughface." Say hello to "moron," "jerk," "asshole," and "flip-flopper." Dangerous Crooked Scoundrels covers the broad sweep of American history, from the founder's debates over the nature of government to world wars and culture wars and social media. Whatever your politics, you'll find Dangerous Crooked Scoundrels an invaluable source of invigorating invective-and a healthy perspective on today's political climate.
Author : Dana M. Caldemeyer
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252052382
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)
Download or read book Union Renegades written by Dana M. Caldemeyer and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2021-01-11 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late nineteenth century, Midwestern miners often had to decide if joining a union was in their interest. Arguing that these workers were neither pro-union nor anti-union, Dana M. Caldemeyer shows that they acted according to what they believed would benefit them and their families. As corporations moved to control coal markets and unions sought to centralize their organizations to check corporate control, workers were often caught between these institutions and sided with whichever one offered the best advantage in the moment. Workers chased profits while paying union dues, rejected national unions while forming local orders, and broke strikes while claiming to be union members. This pragmatic form of unionism differed from what union leaders expected of rank-and-file members, but for many workers the choice to follow or reject union orders was a path to better pay, stability, and independence in an otherwise unstable age. Nuanced and eye-opening, Union Renegades challenges popular notions of workers attitudes during the Gilded Age.
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Author : Philip Coleman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1851096191
Total Pages : 1025 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (51 download)
Download or read book Ireland and the Americas [3 volumes] written by Philip Coleman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2008-02-01 with total page 1025 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is a distinctive, multidisciplinary encyclopedia covering the cultural, political, economic, musical, and literary impact that Ireland and the nations of the Americas have had on one another since the time of Brendan the Navigator. Ireland and the Americas: Culture, Politics, and History aims to broaden the traditional notion of 'Irish-American' beyond Boston, New York, and Chicago. In additional to full coverage of Irish culture in those settings, it reveals the pervasive Irish influence in everything from the settling of the American West, to the spread of Christianity throughout the hemisphere, to Irish involvement in revolutionary movements from the American colonies to Mexico to South America. In addition, the encyclopedia shows the profound impact of Irish Americans on their homeland, in everything from art and literature informed by the emigrant experience, to efforts by Irish Americans to influence Irish politics. Ranging from colonial times to the present, and informed by the surge of academic interest in the past 30 years, Ireland and the Americas is the definitive resource on the profound ties that bind the cultures of Ireland, the United States, Canada, and Latin America.
Author : Paul Avrich
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691222207
Total Pages : 579 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)
Download or read book The Haymarket Tragedy written by Paul Avrich and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-12-08 with total page 579 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first paperback edition of a moving appraisal of the infamous Haymarket bombing (May 1886) and the trial that followed it--a trial that was a cause célèbre in the 1880s and that has since been recognized as one of the most unjust in the annals of American jurisprudence. Paul Avrich shows how eight anarchists who were blamed for the bombing at a workers' meeting near Chicago's Haymarket Square became the focus of a variety of passionately waged struggles.
