Author: Stephen Harlan NorwoodPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Labor's Flaming Youth
Author: Stephen Harlan NorwoodPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Flaming Youth
Author: Samuel Hopkins AdamsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
The Other Women's Movement
Author: Dorothy Sue CobblePublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691123683
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
American feminism has always been about more than the struggle for individual rights and equal treatment under the law. In this book, [the author] retrieves an alternative tradition of women's reform that sought answers to questions increasingly pressing today: how to balance work and family and how to address growing economic inequalities. [This book] trace[s] the history of American social justice feminism from the 1930s into the present and to link that continuous tradition with the leadership of labor women.-Back cover.
Flaming Youth
Author: Warner Fabian (seud.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Labor's Mind
Author: Tobias HigbiePublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252051092
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Business leaders, conservative ideologues, and even some radicals of the early twentieth century dismissed working people's intellect as stunted, twisted, or altogether missing. They compared workers toiling in America's sprawling factories to animals, children, and robots. Working people regularly defied these expectations, cultivating the knowledge of experience and embracing a vibrant subculture of self-education and reading. Labor's Mind uses diaries and personal correspondence, labor college records, and a range of print and visual media to recover this social history of the working-class mind. As Higbie shows, networks of working-class learners and their middle-class allies formed nothing less than a shadow labor movement. Dispersed across the industrial landscape, this movement helped bridge conflicts within radical and progressive politics even as it trained workers for the transformative new unionism of the 1930s. Revelatory and sympathetic, Labor's Mind reclaims a forgotten chapter in working-class intellectual life while mapping present-day possibilities for labor, higher education, and digitally enabled self-study.
Flaming Youth
Author: Harry O. HoytFlaming Youth
Author: Warner FabianLabor Embattled
Author: David BrodyPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252030048
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Explores recent developments affecting American workers in light of labor's past. Of special concern is the erosion of the rights of workers under the modern labor law, which Brody argues is rooted in the original formulation of the Wagner Act. Brody explains how the ideals of free labor, free speech, freedom of association, and freedom of contract have been interpreted and canonized in ways that unfailingly reduce the capacity for workers' collective action while silently removing impediments to employers coercion of workers. He combines legal and labor history to reveal how laws designed to undergird workers' rights now essentially hamstring them. [Publisher web site].
Flaming Youth
Author: Wyn EwartLabor’s Great War
Author: Joseph A. McCartinPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 146961703X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Since World War I, says Joseph McCartin, the central problem of American labor relations has been the struggle among workers, managers, and state officials to reconcile democracy and authority in the workplace. In his comprehensive look at labor issues during the decade of the Great War, McCartin explores the political, economic, and social forces that gave rise to this conflict and shows how rising labor militancy and the sudden erosion of managerial control in wartime workplaces combined to create an industrial crisis. The search for a resolution to this crisis led to the formation of an influential coalition of labor Democrats, AFL unionists, and Progressive activists on the eve of U.S. entry into the war. Though the coalition's efforts in pursuit of industrial democracy were eventually frustrated by powerful forces in business and government and by internal rifts within the movement itself, McCartin shows how the shared quest helped cement the ties between unionists and the Democratic Party that would subsequently shape much New Deal legislation and would continue to influence the course of American political and labor history to the present day.