The Growth of the Knights of Labor in 1885-1886
Author | : Richard John Delello |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Labor unions |
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Author | : Richard John Delello |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Labor unions |
ISBN | : |
Author | : G. William Domhoff |
Publisher | : Touchstone |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
The author is convinced that there is a ruling class in America today. He examines the American power structure as it has developed in the 1980s. He presents systematic, empirical evidence that a fixed group of privileged people dominates the American economy and government. The book demonstrates that an upper class comprising only one-half of one percent of the population occupies key positions within the corporate community. It shows how leaders within this "power elite" reach government and dominate it through processes of special-interest lobbying, policy planning and candidate selection. It is written not to promote any political ideology, but to analyze our society with accuracy.
Author | : Knights of Labor |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 1880 |
Genre | : Labor movement |
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Author | : Terence V. Powderly |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 474 |
Release | : 2013-10 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781258948184 |
This is a new release of the original 1940 edition.
Author | : Joseph Gerteis |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2007-10-24 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780822342243 |
DIVThis ms studies class and race boundaries, and interracial political coalitions, in two significant 19th century social movements--the Knights of Labor and the Populist movement./div
Author | : Theresa A. Case |
Publisher | : Texas A&M University Press |
Total Pages | : 293 |
Release | : 2010-02-23 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 1603441700 |
Focusing on a story largely untold until now, Theresa A. Case studies the "Great Southwest Strike of 1886," which pitted entrepreneurial freedom against the freedom of employees to have a collective voice in their workplace. This series of local actions involved a historic labor agreement followed by the most massive sympathy strike the nation had ever seen. It attracted western railroaders across lines of race and skill, contributed to the rise and decline of the first mass industrial union in U.S. history (the Knights of Labor), and brought new levels of federal intervention in railway strikes. Case takes a fresh look at the labor unrest that shook Jay Gould's railroad empire in Texas, Arkansas, Missouri, Kansas, and Illinois. In Texas towns and cities like Marshall, Dallas, Fort Worth, Palestine, Texarkana, Denison, and Sherman, union recognition was the crucial issue of the day. Case also powerfully portrays the human facets of this strike, reconstructing the story of Martin Irons, a Scottish immigrant who came to adopt the union cause as his own. Irons committed himself wholly to the failed strike of 1886, continuing to urge violence even as courts handed down injunctions protecting the railroads, national union leaders publicly chastised him, the press demonized him, and former strikers began returning to work. Irons’s individual saga is set against the backdrop of social, political, and economic changes that transformed the region in the post–Civil War era. Students, scholars, and general readers interested in railroad, labor, social, or industrial history will not want to be without The Great Southwest Railroad Strike and Free Labor.
Author | : James Robertson Ten Broeck |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 1966 |
Genre | : Labor unions |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Bernard Weinstein |
Publisher | : Open Book Publishers |
Total Pages | : 154 |
Release | : 2018-02-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1783743565 |
Newly arrived in New York in 1882 from Tsarist Russia, the sixteen-year-old Bernard Weinstein discovered an America in which unionism, socialism, and anarchism were very much in the air. He found a home in the tenements of New York and for the next fifty years he devoted his life to the struggles of fellow Jewish workers. The Jewish Unions in America blends memoir and history to chronicle this time. It describes how Weinstein led countless strikes, held the unions together in the face of retaliation from the bosses, investigated sweatshops and factories with the aid of reformers, and faced down schisms by various factions, including Anarchists and Communists. He co-founded the United Hebrew Trades and wrote speeches, articles and books advancing the cause of the labor movement. From the pages of this book emerges a vivid picture of workers’ organizations at the beginning of the twentieth century and a capitalist system that bred exploitation, poverty, and inequality. Although workers’ rights have made great progress in the decades since, Weinstein’s descriptions of workers with jobs pitted against those without, and American workers against workers abroad, still carry echoes today. The Jewish Unions in America is a testament to the struggles of working people a hundred years ago. But it is also a reminder that workers must still battle to live decent lives in the free market. For the first time, Maurice Wolfthal’s readable translation makes Weinstein’s Yiddish text available to English readers. It is essential reading for students and scholars of labor history, Jewish history, and the history of American immigration.