Author: Don Divance LescohierPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 101
Book Description
The Knights of St. Crispin
Author: Don Divance LescohierPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 101
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... The Knights of St. Crispin, 1867-1874
Author: Don Divance LescohierPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Footwear industry
Languages : en
Pages : 462
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The Knights of St. Crispin, 1867-1874;
Author: Don D. LescohierPublisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781022026544
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Don D Lescohier provides a history of the Knights of St Crispin, America's first national trade union for shoemakers. Starting with an overview of the shoemaking industry in America and its labor conditions in the mid-19th century, Lescohier traces the origins and evolution of the Knights, their internal debates and conflicts, and their eventual decline in the face of changing economic and social conditions. The book also includes an appendix of primary sources and a detailed index. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
The Practical Utopians
Author: Steven Bernard LeikinPublisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 9780814331286
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
An exploration of the ideological conflicts and practical experiences of late-nineteenth-century American workers who pursued "cooperation" as an alternative to "competitive" capitalism. Between 1865 and 1890, in the aftermath of the Civil War, virtually every important American labor reform organization advocated "cooperation" over "competitive" capitalism and several thousand cooperatives opened for business during this era. The men and women who built cooperatives were practical reformers and they established businesses to stabilize their work lives, families, and communities. Yet they were also utopians--envisioning a world free from conflict where workers would receive the full value of their labor and freely exercise democratic citizenship in the political and economic realms. Their visions of cooperation, though, were riddled with hierarchical notions of race, gender, and skill that gave little specific guidance for running a cooperative. The Practical Utopians closely examines the experiences of working men and women as they built their cooperatives, contested the meanings of cooperation, and reconciled the realities of the marketplace with their various and often conflicting conceptions of democratic participation. Steve Leikin provides new theories and examples of the failure and successes of the cooperative movement, including how the Gilded Age's most powerful labor organization, the Knights of Labor, collapsed in the face of the expanding industrial economy. Dealing with a critically important yet largely ignored aspect of working-class life during the late nineteenth century, The Practical Utopians brings crucial aspects of the cooperative movement to light and is a necessary study for all scholars of history, labor history, and political science.
A List of Books on the History of Industry and Industrial Arts
Author: John Crerar LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
The John Crerar Library
Author: John Crerar libraryThe History of Wisconsin, Volume II
Author: Richard N. CurrentPublisher: Wisconsin Historical Society
ISBN: 087020629X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 701
Book Description
This second volume in the History of Wisconsin series introduces us to the first generation of statehood, from the conversion of prairie and forests into farmland to the development of cities and industry. In addition, this volume presents a synthesis of the Civil War and Reconstruction era in Wisconsin. Scarcely a decade after entering the Union, the state was plunged into the nationwide debate over slavery, the secession crisis, and a war in which 11,000 "Badger Boys in Blue" gave their lives. Wisconsin's role in the Civil War is chronicled, along with the post-war years. Complete with photographs from the Historical Society's collections, as well as many pertinent maps, this book is a must-have for anyone interested in this era of Wisconsin's history.
The North Star State
Author: Anne J. AbyPublisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
ISBN: 9780873514446
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
Culled from the best of Minnesota History magazine, these essays on 200 years of Minnesota history encompass a wide range of its past, from frontier life to the age of technological innovation, from Dakota and Ojibwe history to the story of a Chinese family in St. Paul, from lumber workers' and truckers' strikes to the women's suffrage movement.
The Labor Movement in the Shoe Industry
Author: Augusta Emile GalsterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boots and shoes
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Proceedings of the ... Annual Meeting of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin
Author: State Historical Society of WisconsinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Wisconsin
Languages : en
Pages : 316
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