Author: Montana. Commission on conservationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forestry law and legislation
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Report of the Commission on Conservation ... January 14, 1911
Author: Montana. Commission on conservationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forestry law and legislation
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Report. January 14, 1911
Author: Montana. Commission on ConservationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forestry law and legislation
Languages : en
Pages : 5
Book Description
Public Health Reports
Author: Report
Author: Michigan State LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Wisconsin Reports
Author: Wisconsin. Supreme CourtPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 782
Book Description
Cases determined in the Supreme Court of Wisconsin.
Annual Reports of the Navy Department for the Fiscal Year ...
Author: United States. Navy DepartmentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Naval art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
1897/98, [v.2], "Appendix to the Report of the chief of the Bureau of navigation" contains correspondence and documents relating to the conduct of the war with Spain, collected, arranged and edited by Ensign H. H. Ward, under the direction of the bureau.
Workers' Health, Workers' Democracy
Author: Alan DericksonPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501745697
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
The most dangerous work in North America at the turn of the century may have been extracting metal-bearing ore from mountains of hard rock. Beginning in the 1890s miners in the West worked through local unions both to prevent occupational hazards and to assure themselves of adequate health care. Among other projects, they planned, built, and governed more than twenty general hospitals throughout the Western United States and Canada. Workers' Health, Workers' Democracy is an engaging and richly documented account of this first attempt to create a democratically controlled health care system in North America. Focusing on the efforts of local unions, Derickson illuminates the broader history of the Western labor movement, the self-help traditions of rank-and-file workers, and the evolution of health care on the industrial frontier.
Report of the Secretary of the Navy
Author: United States. Navy DeptPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Naval art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 646
Book Description
Report of the Railroad Commission of the State of California
Author: Railroad Commission of the State of CaliforniaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
Frank Little and the IWW
Author: Jane Little BotkinPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806157917
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 535
Book Description
Franklin Henry Little (1878–1917), an organizer for the Western Federation of Miners and the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), fought in some of the early twentieth century’s most contentious labor and free-speech struggles. Following his lynching in Butte, Montana, his life and legacy became shrouded in tragedy and family secrets. In Frank Little and the IWW, author Jane Little Botkin chronicles her great-granduncle’s fascinating life and reveals its connections to the history of American labor and the first Red Scare. Beginning with Little’s childhood in Missouri and territorial Oklahoma, Botkin recounts his evolution as a renowned organizer and agitator on behalf of workers in corporate agriculture, oil, logging, and mining. Frank Little traveled the West and Midwest to gather workers beneath the banner of the Wobblies (as IWW members were known), making soapbox speeches on city street corners, organizing strikes, and writing polemics against unfair labor practices. His brother and sister-in-law also joined the fight for labor, but it was Frank who led the charge—and who was regularly threatened, incarcerated, and assaulted for his efforts. In his final battles in Arizona and Montana, Botkin shows, Little and the IWW leadership faced their strongest opponent yet as powerful copper magnates countered union efforts with deep-laid networks of spies and gunmen, an antilabor press, and local vigilantes. For a time, Frank Little’s murder became a rallying cry for the IWW. But after the United States entered the Great War and Congress passed the Sedition Act (1918) to ensure support for the war effort, many politicians and corporations used the act to target labor “radicals,” squelch dissent, and inspire vigilantism. Like other wage-working families smeared with the traitor label, the Little family endured raids, arrests, and indictments in IWW trials. Having scoured the West for firsthand sources in family, library, and museum collections, Botkin melds the personal narrative of an American family with the story of the labor movements that once shook the nation to its core. In doing so, she throws into sharp relief the lingering consequences of political repression.