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Author | : Steven Rosswurm |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Labor unions and communism |
ISBN | : |
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.
Author | : Judith Stepan-Norris |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780521798402 |
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.
Author | : Robert W. Cherny |
Publisher | : Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780813534039 |
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 thirty five percent of non-agricultural workers. Why then did the gains made between the 1930s and the end of the war produce so few results by the 1960s? This collection addresses the history of labor in the postwar years by exploring the impact of the global contest between the United States and the Soviet Union on American workers and labor unions. The essays focus on the actual behavior of Americans in their diverse workplaces and communities during the Cold War. Where previous scholarship on labor and the Cold War has overemphasized the importance of the Communist Party, the automobile industry, and Hollywood, this book focuses on politically moderate, conservative workers and union leaders, the medium-sized cities that housed the majority of the population, and the Roman Catholic Church. These are all original essays that draw upon extensive archival research and some upon oral history sources.
Author | : David Milton |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 191 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0853455708 |
The alliance of the industrial labor movement with the Democratic Party under Franklin D. Roosevelt has, perhaps more than any other factor, shaped the course of class relations in the United States over the ensuing forty years. Much has been written on the interests that were thereby served, and those that were coopted. In this detailed examination of the strategies pursued by both radical labor and the capitalist class in the struggle for industrial unionism, David Milton argues that while radical social change and independent political action were traded off by the industrial working class for economic rights, this was neither automatic nor inevitable. Rather, the outcome was the result of a fierce struggle in which capital fought labor and both fought for control over government labor policy. And, as he demonstrates, crucial to the outcome was the specific nature of the political coalitions contending for supremacy. In analyzing the politics of this struggle, Milton presents a fine description of the major strikes, beginning in 1933-1934, that led to the formation of the CIO and the great industrial unions. He looks closely at the role of the radical political groups, including the Communist Party, the Trotskyists, and the Socialist Party, and provides an enlightening discussion of their vulnerability during the red-baiting era. He also examines the battle between the AFL and the CIO for control of the labor movement, the alliance of the AFL with business interests, and the role of the Catholic Church. Finally, he shows how the extraordinary adeptness of President Roosevelt in allying with labor while at the same time exploiting divisions within the movement was essential to the successful channeling of social revolt into economic demands.
Author | : George Morris |
Publisher | : New York : New Century Publishers |
Total Pages | : 60 |
Release | : 1950 |
Genre | : Labor |
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Author | : Stuart Eimer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Labor movement |
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Author | : Rosemary Feurer |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0252073193 |
In Radical Unionism in the Midwest, 1900-1950 Rosemary Feurer examines the fierce battles between Midwestern electrical workers and bitterly anti-union electrical and metal industry companies during the 1930s and 40s. Organized as District 8 of the United Electrical, Radio, and Machine Workers (UE) and led by open Communist William Sentner, workers developed a style of unionism designed to confront corporate power and to be a force for social transformation in their community and nation. Feurer studies District 8 through a long lens, establishing early twentieth century contexts for these conflicts. Exploring the role of radicals in local movement formation, Feurer argues for a "civic" unionism that could connect community and union concerns to build solidarity and contest the political economy. District 8's spirited unionism included plant occupations in St. Louis and Iowa, campaigns to democratize economic planning, and local strategies for national bargaining that were depicted as a Communist conspiracy by a corporate influenced Congressional committee in Evansville, Indiana. District 8 was destroyed through reactionary networks and the anti-Communist backlash of the mid-twentieth century, but Feurer argues that its history tells another side of the labor movement s formation in the 1930s and 40s, and can inform current struggles against corporate power in the modern global economy. A website with more photographs and documents is available at www.radicalunionism.niu.edu "
Author | : William H. Riker |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 802 |
Release | : 1948 |
Genre | : Labor unions |
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Author | : Len De Caux |
Publisher | : Boston : Beacon Press |
Total Pages | : 584 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |
USA. Account of the author's role in the labour movement in the 1920s and in the national level confederation of trade unions until 1960s - covers social implications and economic implications of the historical period of the economic recession, leadership in the congress of industrial organization, strikes, union memberships, developments in labour relations during the world war, communist activities in the union movement, etc.