Author: Knights of Labor. General AssemblyPublisher:
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Category : Labor movement
Languages : en
Pages : 958
Book Description
Proceedings of the General Assembly of the Knights of Labor of America
Author: Knights of Labor. General AssemblyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Labor movement
Languages : en
Pages : 958
Book Description
Record of Proceedings of the General Assembly of the Knights of Labor
Author: Knights of LaborPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Labor unions
Languages : en
Pages : 654
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Proceedings of the General Assembly of the Knights of Labor of America
Author: Knights of LaborPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Labor unions
Languages : en
Pages : 634
Book Description
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.
Solidarity and Fragmentation
Author: Richard Jules OestreicherPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252054660
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
How did the interplay between class and ethnicity play out within the working class during the Gilded Age? Richard Jules Oestreicher illuminates the immigrant communities, radical politics, worker-employer relationships, and the multiple meanings of workers' affiliations in Detroit at the end of the nineteenth century.
The Samuel Gompers Papers
Author: Samuel GompersPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252011375
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
Reports of the Industrial Commission ...
Author: United States. Industrial CommissionPublisher:
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Category : Industries
Languages : en
Pages : 1320
Book Description
Spanish-American Diplomatic Relations Preceding the War of 1898
Author: Horace Edgar FlackPublisher:
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Category : Labor unions
Languages : en
Pages : 948
Book Description
Radical Heritage
Author: Carlos Arnaldo SchwantesPublisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 0295802189
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
Historian Carlos A. Schwantes studies the forces that shaped the history of the labor movement on either side of the forty-ninth parallel and the reason for the eventual demise of the socialist movement in Washington State and its continuing vigor in British Columbia.
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