Pittsburgh And The Great Steel Strike Of 1919
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Author | : Ryan C. Brown |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 2019-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1467142581 |
In 1919, the steel industry of Pittsburgh was on the brink of war. Years of labor strife broke out into open conflict as steel workers launched the biggest strike to date in the United States, paralyzing mills from Youngstown to Johnstown and beyond. Radical unionists, anarchists and Bolshevik sympathizers set bombs, planned for revolution and fought police in violent battles. As the postwar Red Scare began to sweep the nation, federal agents used the strikes as an excuse to comb Pittsburgh's immigrant neighborhoods looking for communists. Author Ryan C. Brown details the harrowing days of the Great Steel Strike of 1919 that rocked Pittsburgh and its seemingly impregnable "principality of steel."
Author | : William Z. Foster |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 1920 |
Genre | : Steel Strike, U.S., 1919-1920 |
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Author | : William Z. Foster |
Publisher | : DigiCat |
Total Pages | : 139 |
Release | : 2022-07-31 |
Genre | : Fiction |
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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Great Steel Strike and its Lessons" by William Z. Foster. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author | : Colston Estey Warne |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 134 |
Release | : 1963 |
Genre | : Steel Strike, U.S., 1919-1920 |
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Author | : David Brody |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 222 |
Release | : 1965 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780252013737 |
Conceived as a prologue to the 1930s industrial-union triumph in steel, Labor in Crisis explains the failure of unionization before the New Deal era and the reasons for mass-production unionism's eventual success. Widely regarded as a failure, the great 1919 steel strike had both immediate and far-reaching consequences that are important to the history of American labor. It helped end the twelve-hour day, dramatized the issues of the rights to organize and to engage in collective bargaining, and forwarded progress toward the passage of the Wagner Act, which, in turn, helped trigger John L. Lewis's decision to launch the CIO.
Author | : Interchurch World Movement of North America |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 1921 |
Genre | : Steel Strike, U.S., 1919-1920 |
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Author | : Interchurch World Movement of North America |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 1920 |
Genre | : Steel Strike, U.S., 1919-1920 |
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Author | : Robert R. Smith |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Johnstown (Cambria County, Pa.) |
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Author | : Cliff Brown |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2014-01-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 131777650X |
This book focuses on community-level race relations during the 1919 Steel Strike, when intense job competition contributed to racial conflict among the nation's steel workers. As the Great Migration brought thousands of black workers to northern cities, their lower labor costs generated racially split labor markets in the industrial sector. Further, the discriminatory policies of labor unions forced many blacks to serve as strike breakers during periods of class conflict. As a result, the migration heightened racial conflict and undercut important union organizing initiatives. The 1919 Steel Strike illustrates how racial divisions crippled many American unions, a pattern that helps to explain the demise of organized labor during the 1920's. No previous studies of the 1919 Steel Strike have systematically compared community processes to determine how local events shaped the strike's outcome. Despite the failure of the 1919 Steel Strike, the varied experiences of workers in different communities reveal much about the causes of racial conflict and the possibilities of interracial solidarity. This study finds that patterns of black migration, local government repression of labor, the organizational strength of local unions, and employers' efforts to inflame racial tension all help to explain community-level variation in interracial solidarity and conflict. (Ph. D. dissertation, Emory University, 1996; revised with new preface)
Author | : Stanley David Greene |
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Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1953 |
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