Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 832
Book Description
Congressional Record
Author: Congressional Record
Author: United States. CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1092
Book Description
Sessional Indexes to the Annals of Congress
Author: United States Historical Documents InstitutePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1096
Book Description
Democracy and the Origins of the American Regulatory State
Author: Samuel DeCanioPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300216319
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
Political scientist Samuel DeCanio examines how political elites used high levels of voter ignorance to create a new type of regulatory state with lasting implications for American politics. Focusing on the expansion of bureaucratic authority in late-nineteenth-century America, DeCanio’s exhaustive archival research examines electoral politics, the Treasury Department’s control over monetary policy, and the Interstate Commerce Commission’s regulation of railroads to examine how conservative politicians created a new type of bureaucratic state to insulate policy decisions from popular control.
The United States Army and Navy Journal and Gazette of the Regular and Volunteer Forces
Author: Railway Review
Author: Engineering News and American Railway Journal
Author: When Workers Shot Back: Class Conflict from 1877 to 1921
Author: Robert OvetzPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004370331
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 613
Book Description
The United States looks today much like it did in the late 19th to early 20th century. Open class conflict is disappearing, strikes are becoming rare, unions are declining, corporate power is growing, and work is insecure and contingent. When Workers Shot Back: Class Conflict from 1877 to 1921 explores one of the most tumultuous times in United States history. Self-organised workers recomposed their power by devising new strategies and tactics to disrupt the capitalist economy and extract concessions. Mine, railroad, steel, and iron workers pursued a strategy of tension that sometimes erupted into militant class conflict and general strikes in which workers took over and ran a number of cities. Turning common wisdom on its head, When Workers Shot Back argues that the escalation of working class conflict drives rather than reacts to the consolidation and reorganisation of capital and economic and political reform of the state. Studying the class composition of this period illustrates why workers escalated the intensity of their tactics, even using tactical violence, to extract concessions and reforms when all other efforts to do so were blocked, coopted or repressed.
Engineering News and American Contract Journal
Author: Reunion and Reaction
Author: C. Vann WoodwardPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199727856
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Between the era of America's landmark antebellum compromises and that of the Compromise of 1877, a war had intervened, destroying the integrity of the Southern system but failing to determine the New South's relation to the Union. While it did not restore the old order in the South, or restore the South to parity with the Union, it did lay down the political foundations for reunion, bring Reconstruction to an end, and shape the future of four million freedmen. Originally published in 1951, this classic work by one of America's foremost experts on Southern history presents an important new interpretation of the Compromise, forcing historians to revise previous attitudes towards the Reconstruction period, the history of the Republican party, and the realignment of forces that fought the Civil War. Because much of the negotiating occurred in secrecy, historians have known less about this Compromise than others before it. Now reissued with a new introduction by Woodward, Reunion and Reaction gives us the other half of the story.