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Author : Edward E. Swanstrom
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Waterfront Labor Problem written by Edward E. Swanstrom and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Finlay
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ISBN 13 : 9780877225232
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (252 download)
Download or read book Work on the Waterfront written by William Finlay and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this ethnographic account of longshoremen in California, William Finlay examines how they have been affected by recent technological changes in this industry. Focusing on the workers in Local 13 (Los Angeles-Long Beach) of the ILWU, he finds that despite the profound impact of new technologies, in particular of containerization, these workers have retained much of their influence over production, their autonomy at work, and their skill on the job. Using data collected from interviews and participant observation, Finlay provides a first-hand view of a union, the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union, about which there has been considerable speculation and discussion but which has been quite difficult for outsiders to penetrate. During his research, Finlay worked as a longshoreman, accompanied crane operators loading and unloading ships, observed union business agents on their waterfront rounds, and attended negotiation meetings. Contrary to many contemporary arguments concerning the negative impact of technological innovation at the workplace, Finlay finds that in longshoring the new technologies have resulted in the increased demand for skilled workers and in fresh opportunities for workers to assert their control of production.Work on the Waterfrontexamines local unionism in action and discusses the factors that produce on-the-job bargaining in longshoring and other lines of work. Author note: William Finlay is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Iowa.
Author : Bruce Nelson
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252061448
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (614 download)
Download or read book Workers on the Waterfront written by Bruce Nelson and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With working lives characterized by exploitation and rootlessness, merchant seamen were isolated from mainstream life. Yet their contacts with workers in port cities around the world imbued them with a sense of internationalism. These factors contributed to a subculture that encouraged militancy, spontaneous radicalism, and a syndicalist mood. Bruce Nelson's award-winning book examines the insurgent activity and consciousness of maritime workers during the 1930s. As he shows, merchant seamen and longshoremen on the Pacific Coast made major institutional gains, sustained a lengthy period of activity, and expanded their working-class consciousness. Nelson examines the two major strikes that convulsed the region and caused observers to state that day-to-day labor relations resembled guerilla warfare. He also looks at related activity, from increasing political activism to stoppages to defend laborers from penalties, refusals to load cargos for Mussolini's war in Ethiopia, and forced boardings of German vessels to tear down the swastika.
Author : Eric Arnesen
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252063770
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (637 download)
Download or read book Waterfront Workers of New Orleans written by Eric Arnesen and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "During the nineteenth century, American and foreign travelers often found New Orleans a delightful, exotic stop on their journeys; few failed to marvel at the riverfront, the center of the city's economic activity. . . . But absent from the tourism industry's historical recollection is any reference to the immigrants or black migrants and their children who constituted the army of laborers along the riverfront and provided the essential human power to keep the cotton, sugar, and other goods flowing. . . . In examining one diverse group of workers--the 10,000 to 15,000 cotton screwmen, longshoremen, cotton and round freight teamsters, cotton yardmen, railroad freight handlers, and Mississippi River roustabouts--this book focuses primarily on the workplace and the labor movement that emerged along the waterfront."--From the preface
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries
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Total Pages : 1066 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Labor-management Problems of the American Merchant Marine written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 1066 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David F. Selvin
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814326107
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (261 download)
Download or read book A Terrible Anger written by David F. Selvin and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In A Terrible Anger, David F. Selvin presents a narrative history of the strikes. Unlike other labor historians who have stressed the importance of radical groups involved in the strikes, he addresses the impact on unions, owners, government, and the daily press. A witness to the strikes, Selvin has written a compelling story of the traumas and triumphs which acted as catalysts for the tumultuous labor battles of the mid-1930s.
Author : Howard Kimeldorf
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520218337
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)
Download or read book Battling for American Labor written by Howard Kimeldorf and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1999-12 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This riveting, nuanced book takes seriously the workplace radicalism of many early twentieth century American workers. The restriction of working class militancy to the workplace, it shows, was no mere economism. Organizational rather than psychological in orientation, Battling For American Labor accounts for both the early preference of dockworkers in Philadelphia and hotel and restaurant workers in New York for the IWW rather than the AFL and for the reversal of this choice in the 1920s. In so doing, it points the way to a fresh reading of American labor history."—Ira Katznelson, Columbia University "Howard Kimeldorf's book, based on sound and solid historical research in archives, newspapers, journals, memoirs and oral histories, argues that workers in the United States, regardless of their precise union affiliation, harbored syndicalist tendencies which manifested themselves in direct action on the job. Because Kimeldorf's book reinterprets much of the history of the labor movement in the United States, it will surely generate much controversy among scholars and capture the attention of readers."—Melvyn Dubofsky, Binghamton University, SUNY "Howard Kimeldorf's new book is a very exciting accomplishment. This book will surely leave a major imprint on labor history and the sociology of labor. Kimeldorf's focus on repertoires of collective action and practice instead of ideology is a particularly important contribution; one that will force students of labor to rethink many worn-out arguments. After reading Battling For American Labor, one will no longer be able to assume the IWW's defeat was inevitable, or take seriously psychological theories of worker consciousness."—David Wellman, author of The Union Makes Us Strong
Author : Ronald Magden
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book A History of Seattle Waterfront Workers, 1884-1934 written by Ronald Magden and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Vernon H. Jensen
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)
Download or read book Strife on the Waterfront written by Vernon H. Jensen and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: USA. Monograph examining labour relations, trade unionisation and collective bargaining activities of dockers employed in the port of new york in the period from 1945 to 1971 - covers interunion conflict, strike occurrence, grievance and dispute settlement, the impact of automation on cargo handling techniques culminating in the advent of containerization, issues such as the 'shape-up', seniority and guaranteed wages, the role of the waterfront commission in regulating recruitment, etc. Bibliography pp. 457 to 471 and references.
Author : David Witwer
Publisher : The New Press
ISBN 13 : 1620974649
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Murder in the Garment District written by David Witwer and published by The New Press. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The thrilling and true account of racketeering and union corruption in mid-century New York, when unions and the mob were locked in a power struggle that reverberates to this day In 1949, in New York City's crowded Garment District, a union organizer named William Lurye was stabbed to death by a mob assassin. Through the lens of this murder case, prize-winning authors David Witwer and Catherine Rios explore American labor history at its critical turning point, drawing on FBI case files and the private papers of investigative journalists who first broke the story. A narrative that originates in the garment industry of mid-century New York, which produced over 80 percent of the nation's dresses at the time, Murder in the Garment District quickly moves to a national stage, where congressional anti-corruption hearings gripped the nation and forever tainted the reputation of American unions. Replete with elements of a true-crime thriller, Murder in the Garment District includes a riveting cast of characters, from wheeling and dealing union president David Dubinsky to the notorious gangster Abe Chait and the crusading Robert F. Kennedy, whose public duel with Jimmy Hoffa became front-page news. Deeply researched and grounded in the street-level events that put people's lives and livelihoods at stake, Murder in the Garment District is destined to become a classic work of history—one that also explains the current troubled state of unions in America.
Author : Charles P. Larrowe
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520345460
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)
Download or read book Shape-Up and Hiring Hall written by Charles P. Larrowe and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1955.
Author : David Wellman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521629683
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (296 download)
Download or read book The Union Makes Us Strong written by David Wellman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-08-28 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American labour history is typically interpreted by scholars as a history of defeat. Hidden by this conventional wisdom are a handful of militant unions that did not follow the putative Congress of Industrial Organizations trajectory. Based on three years of ethnographic research, this book examines a union that organised itself to systematically challenge management's rule on the shopfloor: San Francisco's longshore union. American unionism looks quite different than conventional wisdom suggests when everyday union practices are observed. American labour's trajectory, this book argues, is neither inevitable nor determined; militant, democratic forms of unionism are possible in the United States; and collective bargaining does not automatically eliminate contests for workplace control. The contract is a bargain that reflects and reproduces fundamental disagreement; it states how production and conflict will proceed.
Author : Donald Arthur Knies
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Labor Conflict on the San Francisco Waterfront, 1934-1948 written by Donald Arthur Knies and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 850 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book To Clarify the Overtime Compensation Provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, as Amended written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 850 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 766 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Report No. G- ... written by and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 766 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Clarence Thomas
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ISBN 13 : 9781737081906
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (819 download)
Download or read book Mobilizing in OUR OWN NAME written by Clarence Thomas and published by . This book was released on 2021-05 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today's workers can no longer continue to depend on bourgeois politicians to address issues of systemic racism, income inequality, corporate greed, workers' rights, universal health care, slashing the military budget, and ending the murder of African Americans, and people of color by police. The initiators of the Million Worker March (MWM) understood this, which is why they challenged the Democratic Party, the officialdom of labor, and others to organize the MWM. This anthology is about radical African American trade unionists from one of the most renowned radical labor organizations in the world, the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) Local 10, that defied the Democratic Party and the AFL-CIO and mobilized the MWM on October 17, 2004, at the Lincoln Memorial.The writer understands that now more than ever, workers around the world must act in unity in our own interests. Workers must build an international rank-and-file fight-back movement to defend the rights of workers internationally to achieve economic security and a peaceful world.The MWM called for an independent mobilization of working people, with a workers' agenda to address the unrestrained class warfare by the captains of capital. This historic event, which was viewed on C-Span, attracted thousands of workers (organized and unorganized), immigrant rights groups, anti-war activists, community organizations, social movements, youth, and trade unionists from around the world.This anthology captures radical workers' actions and struggles written by activists as those events were happening through news articles, interviews, photos, posters, leaflets, and video transcripts.Through these documents, the story is told of the MWM Movement, its roots, and the branches that have grown from it mobilizing in our own name. It is intended to create a historic account and give impetus to the struggles ahead.
Author : United States. Congress
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1664 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Reports and Documents written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 1664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
