Good, Reliable, White Men
Author | : Paul Michel Taillon |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |
Railroad brotherhoods' dynamic impact on American labor relations and national politics
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Author | : Paul Michel Taillon |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |
Railroad brotherhoods' dynamic impact on American labor relations and national politics
Author | : Jarod Roll |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 357 |
Release | : 2020-04-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1469656302 |
White working-class conservatives have played a decisive role in American history, particularly in their opposition to social justice movements, radical critiques of capitalism, and government help for the poor and sick. While this pattern is largely seen as a post-1960s development, Poor Man's Fortune tells a different story, excavating the long history of white working-class conservatism in the century from the Civil War to World War II. With a close study of metal miners in the Tri-State district of Kansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma, Jarod Roll reveals why successive generations of white, native-born men willingly and repeatedly opposed labor unions and government-led health and safety reforms, even during the New Deal. With painstaking research, Roll shows how the miners' choices reflected a deep-seated, durable belief that hard-working American white men could prosper under capitalism, and exposes the grim costs of this view for these men and their communities, for organized labor, and for political movements seeking a more just and secure society. Roll's story shows how American inequalities are in part the result of a white working-class conservative tradition driven by grassroots assertions of racial, gendered, and national privilege.
Author | : United States. Immigration Commission (1907-1910) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1078 |
Release | : 1911 |
Genre | : Emigration and immigration |
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Author | : United States. Immigration Commission (1907-1910) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1072 |
Release | : 1911 |
Genre | : Emigration and immigration |
ISBN | : |
Author | : USA Immigration Commission |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1072 |
Release | : 1911 |
Genre | : Emigration and immigration |
ISBN | : |
Author | : United States. Immigration Commission (1907-1910) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1074 |
Release | : 1911 |
Genre | : Emigration and immigration |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Peter Cole |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2018-12-30 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0252050827 |
Dockworkers have power. Often missed in commentary on today's globalizing economy, workers in the world's ports can harness their role, at a strategic choke point, to promote their labor rights and social justice causes. Peter Cole brings such overlooked experiences to light in an eye-opening comparative study of Durban, South Africa, and the San Francisco Bay Area, California. Path-breaking research reveals how unions effected lasting change in some of the most far-reaching struggles of modern times. First, dockworkers in each city drew on longstanding radical traditions to promote racial equality. Second, they persevered when a new technology--container ships--sent a shockwave of layoffs through the industry. Finally, their commitment to black internationalism and leftist politics sparked transnational work stoppages to protest apartheid and authoritarianism. Dockworker Power not only brings to light surprising parallels in the experiences of dockers half a world away from each other. It also offers a new perspective on how workers can change their conditions and world.
Author | : Steven C. Beda |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 418 |
Release | : 2022-12-13 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 025205377X |
Winner of the 2022 Philip Taft Labor History Book Prize Often cast as villains in the Northwest's environmental battles, timber workers in fact have a connection to the forest that goes far beyond jobs and economic issues. Steven C. Beda explores the complex true story of how and why timber-working communities have concerned themselves with the health and future of the woods surrounding them. Life experiences like hunting, fishing, foraging, and hiking imbued timber country with meanings and values that nurtured a deep sense of place in workers, their families, and their communities. This sense of place in turn shaped ideas about protection that sometimes clashed with the views of environmentalists--or the desires of employers. Beda's sympathetic, in-depth look at the human beings whose lives are embedded in the woods helps us understand that timber communities fought not just to protect their livelihood, but because they saw the forest as a vital part of themselves.
Author | : Daniel J. Clark |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 377 |
Release | : 2018-09-14 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0252050754 |
It is a bedrock American belief: the 1950s were a golden age of prosperity for autoworkers. Flush with high wages and enjoying the benefits of generous union contracts, these workers became the backbone of a thriving blue-collar middle class. It is also a myth. Daniel J. Clark began by interviewing dozens of former autoworkers in the Detroit area and found a different story--one of economic insecurity caused by frequent layoffs, unrealized contract provisions, and indispensable second jobs. Disruption in Detroit is a vivid portrait of workers and an industry that experienced anything but stable prosperity. As Clark reveals, the myths--whether of rising incomes or hard-nosed union bargaining success--came later. In the 1950s, ordinary autoworkers, union leaders, and auto company executives recognized that although jobs in their industry paid high wages, they were far from steady and often impossible to find.