Author: Publisher:
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Category : Microcards
Languages : en
Pages : 1418
Book Description
Guide to Microforms in Print
Author: 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.
National Register of Microform Masters
Author: Municipal Records in Ontario
Author: Fraser DunfordPublisher:
ISBN: 9781772402117
Category : Municipal government
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Slavery, a Bibliography and Union List of the Microform Collection
Author: Microfilming Corporation of AmericaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
The Rise of a Southern Town
Author: Patrick M. ValentinePublisher:
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Category : Wilson (N.C.)
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
History of Framingham, Massachusetts
Author: Josiah Howard TemplePublisher:
ISBN: 9780897250702
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 794
Book Description
Manuscript Sources for the History of Irish Civilisation
Author: National Library of IrelandPublisher:
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Category : Ireland
Languages : en
Pages : 722
Book Description
National Register of Microform Masters, 1965-1975
Author: Library of Congress. Catalog Publication DivisionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Microforms
Languages : en
Pages : 1238
Book Description
A History of the Rectangular Survey System
Author: C. Albert WhitePublisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 794
Book Description