Author: Returned Sailors and Soldiers Labor League
Publisher:
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Category : Veterans
Languages : en
Pages : 19

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Author: Matthew E. Stanley
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252052641
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 448

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Enlisting memory in a new fight for freedom From the Gilded Age through the Progressive era, labor movements reinterpreted Abraham Lincoln as a liberator of working people while workers equated activism with their own service fighting for freedom during the war. Matthew E. Stanley explores the wide-ranging meanings and diverse imagery used by Civil War veterans within the sprawling radical politics of the time. As he shows, a rich world of rituals, songs, speeches, and newspapers emerged among the many strains of working class cultural politics within the labor movement. Yet tensions arose even among allies. Some people rooted Civil War commemoration in nationalism and reform, and in time, these conservative currents marginalized radical workers who tied their remembering to revolution, internationalism, and socialism. An original consideration of meaning and memory, Grand Army of Labor reveals the complex ways workers drew on themes of emancipation and equality in the long battle for workers’ rights.

Author: Mark A. Lause
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252097386
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 297

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Monumental and revelatory, Free Labor explores labor activism throughout the country during a period of incredible diversity and fluidity: the American Civil War. Mark A. Lause describes how the working class radicalized during the war as a response to economic crisis, the political opportunity created by the election of Abraham Lincoln, and the ideology of free labor and abolition. His account moves from battlefield and picket line to the negotiating table, as he discusses how leaders and the rank-and-file alike adapted tactics and modes of operation to specific circumstances. His close attention to women and African Americans, meanwhile, dismantles notions of the working class as synonymous with whiteness and maleness. In addition, Lause offers a nuanced consideration of race's role in the politics of national labor organizations, in segregated industries in the border North and South, and in black resistance in the secessionist South, creatively reading self-emancipation as the largest general strike in U.S. history.

Author: Samuel Gompers
Publisher:
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Category : Labor
Languages : en
Pages : 400

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Author: Philip Sheldon Foner
Publisher:
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Category : Industrial relations
Languages : en
Pages : 332

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Author: Alan Ned Sabrosky
Publisher: Westview Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 198

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Author: Joseph P. Mockaitis
Publisher:
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Category : Military unions
Languages : en
Pages : 100

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The biggest labor union growth in recent years has been in the public sector of the United States economy. The traditional boundary for union activity in the public secotr has been the military. Even this boundary has been crossed in a number of foreign countries. There currently exists in the United States an extreme shortage of available information concerning military unions. Specifically, there is little information concerning organization, operation, advantages, disadvantages, and limitations of foreign military unions. The organization and operation of the present military unions of Austria, Denmark, and Sweden were analyzed to determine their advantages, disadvantages, and limitations. (Author).

Author: David Cortright
Publisher: American Enterprise Institute Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 40

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Author: Bart Kennedy
Publisher: London ; Toronto : Hodder and Stoughton
ISBN:
Category : Labor
Languages : en
Pages : 124

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Author: Nelson Lichtenstein
Publisher: Temple University Press
ISBN: 9781592131969
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 364

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Annotation A new edition of a classic book on how World War II changed the face of labor in the US.