Author: Microfilming Corporation of AmericaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Terence Vincent Powderly Papers, 1864-1937, and John William Hayes Papers, 1880-1921
Author: Microfilming Corporation of AmericaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Labor and Urban Politics
Author: Richard SchneirovPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252066764
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
This finely detailed narrative is the definitive account of the rise to power of the Chicago labor movement amidst the 1877 railroad strike, the 1886 struggle over the eight-hour workday, and the 1894 Pullman strike. Hinging on a major reinterpretation of the Haymarket era, Labor and Urban Politics argues for labor's profound influence on the shaping of urban politics and the transformation of liberalism in late nineteenth-century America.''After this book, no one will have any excuse to write about late nineteenth-century politics in Chicago, or any other city, solely on the basis of the actions and interests of elites. Schneirov argues for the importance of the working class in municipal politics on a level that surpasses anything else in the literature.'' -- David Montgomery''The most thorough, deepest re-reading of Gilded Age reality that has yet emerged from labor historians. . . . Gives an unparalleled understanding of the world of contemporary labor.'' -- Leon Fink, author of In Search of the Working Class: Essays in American Labor History and Political Culture A volume in the series The Working Class in American History, edited by David Brody, Alice Kessler-Harris, David Montgomery, and Sean Wilentz
˜Theœ Terence Vincent Powderly Papers 1864 - 1937 and John William Hayes Papers 1880 - 1921
Author: John A. TurcheneskeResource Sharing
Author: Association of Research Libraries. Systems and Procedures Exchange CenterPublisher: Association of Research Libr
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Category : Academic libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
The Pew and the Picket Line
Author: Christopher D. CantwellPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 025209817X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
The Pew and the Picket Line collects works from a new generation of scholars working at the nexus where religious history and working-class history converge. Focusing on Christianity and its unique purchase in America, the contributors use in-depth local histories to illustrate how Americans male and female, rural and urban, and from a range of ethnic backgrounds dwelt in a space between the church and the shop floor. Their vivid essays show Pentecostal miners preaching prosperity while seeking miracles in the depths of the earth, while aboveground black sharecroppers and white Protestants establish credit unions to pursue a joint vision of cooperative capitalism. Innovative and essential, The Pew and the Picket Line reframes venerable debates as it maps the dynamic contours of a landscape sculpted by the powerful forces of Christianity and capitalism. Contributors: Christopher D. Cantwell, Heath W. Carter, Janine Giordano Drake, Ken Fones-Wolf, Erik Gellman, Alison Collis Greene, Brett Hendrickson, Dan McKanan, Matthew Pehl, Kerry L. Pimblott, Jarod Roll, Evelyn Sterne, and Arlene Sanchez Walsh.
Microtexts in Cornell University Libraries
Author: Cornell University. LibrariesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Union Renegades
Author: Dana M. CaldemeyerPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252052382
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
In the late nineteenth century, Midwestern miners often had to decide if joining a union was in their interest. Arguing that these workers were neither pro-union nor anti-union, Dana M. Caldemeyer shows that they acted according to what they believed would benefit them and their families. As corporations moved to control coal markets and unions sought to centralize their organizations to check corporate control, workers were often caught between these institutions and sided with whichever one offered the best advantage in the moment. Workers chased profits while paying union dues, rejected national unions while forming local orders, and broke strikes while claiming to be union members. This pragmatic form of unionism differed from what union leaders expected of rank-and-file members, but for many workers the choice to follow or reject union orders was a path to better pay, stability, and independence in an otherwise unstable age. Nuanced and eye-opening, Union Renegades challenges popular notions of workers attitudes during the Gilded Age.
National Union Catalog
Author: Industrial and Labor Relations Review
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Category : Industrial relations
Languages : en
Pages : 620
Book Description
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