Hard Work

Hard Work
Author: Rick Fantasia
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2004-06-16
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0520240901

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The Labor Movement

The Labor Movement
Author: Tim McNeese
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Total Pages: 169
Release: 2007
Genre: Business
ISBN: 1438106351

The labor movement espoused social equality and honest labor through the formation of labor unions. By the 1930s, labor unions were becoming more accepted which gave workers the right to establish unions without interference from their employers. This title looks at the movement that has had an effect on how industry operates in the United States.

History of the Labor Movement in the United States

History of the Labor Movement in the United States
Author: Philip Sheldon Foner
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHERS CO
Total Pages: 328
Release: 1988
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780717806522

Labor and the Red Scare; Seattle and Winnipeg general strikes; Boston telephone and police strikes; Streetcar strikes in Chicago, Denver, Knoxville, Kansas City; strikes in clothing, textile, coal and steel; The open-shop drive; Strikes and Black-white relationships; the AFL and the Black worker; the IWW; Communist Party founded; Political action 1918-1920.

Law and the Shaping of the American Labor Movement

Law and the Shaping of the American Labor Movement
Author: William E. Forbath
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 231
Release: 2009-07-01
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0674037081

Why did American workers, unlike their European counterparts, fail to forge a class-based movement to pursue broad social reform? Was it simply that they lacked class consciousness and were more interested in personal mobility? In a richly detailed survey of labor law and labor history, William Forbath challenges this notion of American “individualism.” In fact, he argues, the nineteenth-century American labor movement was much like Europe’s labor movements in its social and political outlook, but in the decades around the turn of the century, the prevailing attitude of American trade unionists changed. Forbath shows that, over time, struggles with the courts and the legal order were crucial to reshaping labor’s outlook, driving the labor movement to temper its radical goals.

Who Rules America Now?

Who Rules America Now?
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.

The Labor Movement, Revised Edition

The Labor Movement, Revised Edition
Author: Tim McNeese
Publisher: Infobase Holdings, Inc
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2019-07-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1438180381

The labor movement espoused social equality and honest labor through the formation of labor unions. Although groups such as the Knights of Labor and the American Federation of Labor, both of which represented skilled laborers, began to figure prominently in industry in the late 1800s, labor unions that represented unskilled workers did not gain influence until the early 1900s. By the 1930s, labor unions were becoming more accepted, thanks in part to the National Labor Relations Act, which gave workers the right to establish unions without interference from their employers. Crisply written and illustrated with compelling photographs, The Labor Movement, Revised Edition is a thorough look at the movement that has had a profound effect on how industry operates in the United States.

Labor in America

Labor in America
Author: Melvyn Dubofsky
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 496
Release: 2017-05-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1118976843

This book, designed to give a survey history of American labor from colonial times to the present, is uniquely well suited to speak to the concerns of today’s teachers and students. As issues of growing inequality, stagnating incomes, declining unionization, and exacerbated job insecurity have increasingly come to define working life over the last 20 years, a new generation of students and teachers is beginning to seek to understand labor and its place and ponder seriously its future in American life. Like its predecessors, this ninth edition of our classic survey of American labor is designed to introduce readers to the subject in an engaging, accessible way.

The Labor Revolution

The Labor Revolution
Author: Gus Tyler
Publisher: New York : Viking Press
Total Pages: 302
Release: 1967
Genre: Labor unions
ISBN:

Historical account of the labour movement in the USA - covers economic implications and political aspects, the role of trade unions in respect of automation and full employment, collective bargaining practices, trade union membership, Black connections with trade unions, etc. Bibliography pp. 259 to 271.