The Growth of the Knights of Labor in 1885-1886
Author | : Richard John Delello |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Labor unions |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Richard John Delello |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Labor unions |
ISBN | : |
Author | : James Robertson Ten Broeck |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 1966 |
Genre | : Labor unions |
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Author | : Samuel Gompers |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 592 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780252011375 |
Author | : Bernadette Brexel |
Publisher | : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc |
Total Pages | : 40 |
Release | : 2003-12-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780823940288 |
Examines the early history of America's labor movement in the nineteenth century, particularly the fight for an eight-hour work day, and its effects on American business and workers.
Author | : Charles Postel |
Publisher | : Macmillan + ORM |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 2019-08-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 142994692X |
An in-depth study of American social movements after the Civil War and their lessons for today by a prizewinning historian The Civil War unleashed a torrent of claims for equality—in the chaotic years following the war, former slaves, women’s rights activists, farmhands, and factory workers all engaged in the pursuit of the meaning of equality in America. This contest resulted in experiments in collective action, as millions joined leagues and unions. In Equality: An American Dilemma, 1866–1886, Charles Postel demonstrates how taking stock of these movements forces us to rethink some of the central myths of American history. Despite a nationwide push for equality, egalitarian impulses oftentimes clashed with one another. These dynamics get to the heart of the great paradox of the fifty years following the Civil War and of American history at large: Waves of agricultural, labor, and women’s rights movements were accompanied by the deepening of racial discrimination and oppression. Herculean efforts to overcome the economic inequality of the first Gilded Age and the sexual inequality of the late-Victorian social order emerged alongside Native American dispossession, Chinese exclusion, Jim Crow segregation, and lynch law. Now, as Postel argues, the twenty-first century has ushered in a second Gilded Age of savage socioeconomic inequalities. Convincing and learned, Equality explores the roots of these social fissures and speaks urgently to the need for expansive strides toward equality to meet our contemporary crisis.
Author | : Matthew Hild |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |
Hild shows that the Populist (or People's) Party, the most important third party of the 1890s, established itself most solidly in Texas, Alabama, and, under the guise of the earlier Union Labor Party, Arkansas, where farmer-labor political coalitions from the 1870s to mid-1880s had laid the groundwork for populism's expansion.
Author | : Knights of Labor |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 1880 |
Genre | : Labor movement |
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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.