An exploration of some of American labor's central themes by a giant in the field, this book also a narrative of how one scholar was drawn to labor history as a subject of study and how his approach to it changed over time.
An exploration of some of American labor's central themes by a giant in the field, this book also a narrative of how one scholar was drawn to labor hi...
A succinct rendition of Dubofsky's history of the IWW, this edition brings the essence of the colorful story of the Industrial Workers of the World.
A succinct rendition of Dubofsky's history of the IWW, this edition brings the essence of the colorful story of the Industrial Workers of the World.
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This single-volume comprehensive compilation of documents integrates institutional labour history (movements and trade unions) with aspects of social and cultural history, as well as charting changes in trade union and managerial practices, and integrating the economics and politics of labour history. It includes documents that treat household relations as well as industrial relations; women as domestic workers and unpaid household labour as well as factory workers; and African American, Hispanic American (especially Mexican and Mexican American), and Asian workers as well as white workers....
This single-volume comprehensive compilation of documents integrates institutional labour history (movements and trade unions) with aspects of social ...
This single-volume comprehensive compilation of documents integrates institutional labour history (movements and trade unions) with aspects of social and cultural history, as well as charting changes in trade union and managerial practices, and integrating the economics and politics of labour history. It includes documents that treat household relations as well as industrial relations; women as domestic workers and unpaid household labour as well as factory workers; and African American, Hispanic American (especially Mexican and Mexican American), and Asian workers as well as white workers....
This single-volume comprehensive compilation of documents integrates institutional labour history (movements and trade unions) with aspects of social ...
In this important new book, Melvyn Dubofsky traces the relationship between the American labor movement and the federal government from the 1870s until the present. His is the only book to focus specifically on the 'labor question' as a lens through which to view more clearly the basic political, economic, and social forces that have divided citizens throughout the industrial era. Many scholars contend that the state has acted to suppress trade union autonomy and democracy, as well as rank-and-file militancy, in the interest of social stability and conclude that the law has rendered unions...
In this important new book, Melvyn Dubofsky traces the relationship between the American labor movement and the federal government from the 1870s unti...
Early in the twentieth century, the Wobblies, or Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), fought for the rights of workers - common laborers, migrants, immigrants, black workers - unprotected by the craft unions. In the face of beatings, kidnappings, and lynchings by vigilantes, company detectives, and hired guns, the Wobblies organized in mining and lumber camps, the wheat fields, on docksides and in textile factories. From its inception in 1906, the IWW rose to prominence with free speech fights, peaked with a membership of over 100,000 workers in 1917, and was devastated in 1918 by the...
Early in the twentieth century, the Wobblies, or Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), fought for the rights of workers - common laborers, migrants, ...
This book, designed to give a survey history of American labor from colonial times to the present is uniquely well suited to speak to the concerns of today's teachers and students. As issues of growing inequality, stagnating incomes, declining unionization, and exacerbated job insecurity have increasingly come to define working life over the last twenty years, a new generation of students and teachers are beginning to seek to understand labor and its place and ponder seriously its future in American life. Like its predecessors, this ninth edition of our classic survey of American labor is...
This book, designed to give a survey history of American labor from colonial times to the present is uniquely well suited to speak to the concerns of ...
This book, designed to give a survey history of American labor from colonial times to the present, is uniquely well suited to speak to the concerns of today's teachers and students. As issues of growing inequality, stagnating incomes, declining unionization, and exacerbated job insecurity have increasingly come to define working life over the last 20 years, a new generation of students and teachers is beginning to seek to understand labor and its place and ponder seriously its future in American life. Like its predecessors, this ninth edition of our classic survey of American labor is...
This book, designed to give a survey history of American labor from colonial times to the present, is uniquely well suited to speak to the concerns...