The ILWU Story

The ILWU Story
Author: International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union
Publisher:
Total Pages: 108
Release: 1955
Genre: Labor movement
ISBN:

Booklet on the history of the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union (ILWU).

Proceedings

Proceedings
Author: International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union. Local 142, Honolulu, Hawaii
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1032
Release: 1971
Genre: Labor unions
ISBN:

The CIO's Left-led Unions

The CIO's Left-led Unions
Author: Steven Rosswurm
Publisher:
Total Pages: 270
Release: 1992
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780813517698

The American labor movement seemed poised on the threshold of unparalleled success at the beginning of the post-World War II era. Fourteen million strong in 1946, unions represented 35 percent of non-agricultural workers, and federal power insured collective bargaining rights. The contrast with the pre-war years was strongest for those workers who retained vivid memories of the 1920s and early 1930s. Then, the labor movement lacked government legitimacy, and, at the worst point of the Great Depression, the union movement barely enrolled 5 percent of the non-farm workforce; one out of every four workers lacked a job. Now, the future seemed to hold unlimited possibilities.

Farm Workers, Agribusiness, and the State

Farm Workers, Agribusiness, and the State
Author: Linda C. Majka
Publisher:
Total Pages: 368
Release: 1982
Genre: Agricultural laborers
ISBN:

Historical account of the social conflict between agricultural workers and agribusiness, and the role of state intervention in California, USA - analyses agricultural trade unionism since 1870, immigration of Chinese, Japanese, Mexicans and Filipinos, and its regulation; examines the economic recession of the 1930s, rise of rural worker organizations, internal migration, and state-enrolled contract labour; reports on the formation of the United Farm Workers and its struggle for trade union recognition, opposition, and state mediation. Bibliography.

Singlejack Solidarity

Singlejack Solidarity
Author: Stan Weir
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages: 409
Release:
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1452906726

Blue-collar intellectual and activist publisher, Stan Weir devoted his life to the advocacy of his fellow workers. Weir was both a thoughtful observer and an active participant in many of the key struggles that shaped the labor movement and the political left in postwar America. He reported firsthand from the front lines of decisive fights over the nature of unions in the auto industry, the resistance to automation on the waterfront, and battles over racial integration in the workplace and within unions themselves. Written throughout Weir's decades as a blue-collar worker and labor educator, "Singlejack Solidarity offers a rare look at modern life and social relations as seen from the factory, dockside, and the shop floor. This volume analyzes issues central to working-class life today, such as the human costs of automation, union policies, mass media images of work, and intergenerational relations in working-class families. It also provides humorous commentaries, historical vignettes, and moving portraits of people Weir encountered, including James Baldwin, C.L.R. James, and Eric Hoffer. Gathered here for the first time, Weir's writings are equal parts memoir, labor history, and polemic; taken together, they document a crucial chapter in the life story of working-class America.

A Man Must Stand Up

A Man Must Stand Up
Author: John E. Reinecke
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Total Pages: 100
Release: 1993-01-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780824815172