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Good, reliable, White men : railroad brotherhoods, 1877-1917
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- Creator
- Paul Michel Taillon
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2009]
- ©2009
- Physical Details
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- xi, 266 pages, 6 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780252034855, 0252034856, 9780252076787, 0252076788
- OCLC
- ocn315238421
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [215]-257) and index.
- Introduction: reconsidering the railroad brotherhoods -- Workplace and household life in the running trades -- Victorian America and the brotherhoods' fraternal culture -- Free-labor ideology and labor relations in the Gilded Age -- The crisis of the 1890s and the reordering of railroad labor relations -- Progressive Era America and the culture of the new unionism -- Craft industrialism and the arbitration system -- Political action, industrial action, and the making of the liberal state
Subjects
- Railroads -- Employees -- Labor unions -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
- Railroads -- Employees -- Labor unions -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
- Fraternal organizations -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
- Fraternal organizations -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
- Working class -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
- Working class -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
- United States -- Economic conditions -- 1865-1918.
- United States -- Social conditions -- 1865-1918.