The du Ponts, one of the most powerful families in American industry, actively fought the policies that gave government more and more power over the economy. It was not centralization they opposed--indeed, the New Deal initially gained their favor because it appeared to promise a "corporate state" administered along the same lines as a business organization--but the sharing, or brokering, of power among various political interests. If government was to direct the economy, they felt, it should be in the hands of proven business leaders such as themselves.
The du Pont brothers and...
The du Ponts, one of the most powerful families in American industry, actively fought the policies that gave government more and more power over th...
To most Americans, baseball is just a sport; but to those who own baseball teams--and those who play on them--our national pastime is much more than a game. In this book, Robert Burk traces the turbulent labor history of American baseball since 1921. His comprehensive, readable account details the many battles between owners and players that irrevocably altered the business of baseball.
During what Burk calls baseball's "paternalistic era," from 1921 to the early 1960s, the sport's management rigidly maintained a system of racial segregation, established a network of southern-based...
To most Americans, baseball is just a sport; but to those who own baseball teams--and those who play on them--our national pastime is much more than a...
America's national pastime has been marked from its inception by bitter struggles between owners and players over profit, power, and prestige. In this book, the first installment of a highly readable, comprehensive labor history of baseball, Robert Burk describes the evolution of the ballplaying work force: its ethnocultural makeup, its economic position, and its battles for a place at the table in baseball's decision-making structure.
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the growing popularity of baseball as a spectator sport and the dramatic upsurge of America's...
America's national pastime has been marked from its inception by bitter struggles between owners and players over profit, power, and prestige. In this...
Marvin Miller changed major league baseball and the business of sports. Drawing on research and interviews with Miller and others, " Marvin Miller, Baseball Revolutionary" offers the first biography covering the pivotal labor leader's entire life and career. Baseball historian Robert F. Burk follows Miller's formative encounters with Depression-era hard times, racial and religious bigotry, and bare-knuckle Washington politics to a successful career in labor that prepared Miller for his biggest professional challenge--running the moribund Major League Baseball Players Association. ...
Marvin Miller changed major league baseball and the business of sports. Drawing on research and interviews with Miller and others, " Marvin Miller, Ba...
