Genesis of a Railroad
Author | : Earnest Elmo Calkins |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 34 |
Release | : 1935 |
Genre | : Galesburg (Ill.) |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Earnest Elmo Calkins |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 34 |
Release | : 1935 |
Genre | : Galesburg (Ill.) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Jon R. Huibregtse |
Publisher | : University Press of Florida |
Total Pages | : 191 |
Release | : 2010-04-11 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 081304295X |
American historians tend to believe that labor activism was moribund in the years between the First World War and the New Deal. Jon Huibregtse challenges this perspective in his examination of the railroad unions of the time, arguing that not only were they active, but that they made a big difference in American Labor practices by helping to set legal precedents. Huibregtse explains how efforts by the Plumb Plan League and the Railroad Labor Executive Association created the Railroad Labor Act, its amendments, and the Railroad Retirement Act. These laws became models for the National Labor Relations Act and the Social Security Act. Unfortunately, the significant contributions of the railroad laws are, more often than not, overlooked when the NLRA or Social Security are discussed. Offering a new perspective on labor unions in the 1920s, Huibregtse describes how the railroad unions created a model for union activism that workers’ organizations followed for the next two decades.
Author | : Stephen E. Ambrose |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 468 |
Release | : 2001-11-06 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780743203173 |
The story of the men who build the transcontinental railroad in the 1860's.
Author | : Alan Roland Woolworth |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 53 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Railroads |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Charles Francis Adams |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 1878 |
Genre | : Railroads |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Tom Murray |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : |
Genre | : Southern Railway |
ISBN | : 9781610605090 |
Author | : Granite Railway Company |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 78 |
Release | : 1926 |
Genre | : Granite railway |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Christian Wolmar |
Publisher | : PublicAffairs |
Total Pages | : 450 |
Release | : 2012-09-25 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 1610391802 |
America was made by the railroads. The opening of the Baltimore & Ohio line -- the first American railroad -- in the 1830s sparked a national revolution in the way that people lived thanks to the speed and convenience of train travel. Promoted by visionaries and built through heroic effort, the American railroad network was bigger in every sense than Europe's, and facilitated everything from long-distance travel to commuting and transporting goods to waging war. It united far-flung parts of the country, boosted economic development, and was the catalyst for America's rise to world-power status. Every American town, great or small, aspired to be connected to a railroad and by the turn of the century, almost every American lived within easy access of a station. By the early 1900s, the United States was covered in a latticework of more than 200,000 miles of railroad track and a series of magisterial termini, all built and controlled by the biggest corporations in the land. The railroads dominated the American landscape for more than a hundred years but by the middle of the twentieth century, the automobile, the truck, and the airplane had eclipsed the railroads and the nation started to forget them. In The Great Railroad Revolution, renowned railroad expert Christian Wolmar tells the extraordinary story of the rise and the fall of the greatest of all American endeavors, and argues that the time has come for America to reclaim and celebrate its often-overlooked rail heritage.