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The Labor history reader
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- Creator
- edited by Daniel J. Leab
- Included Title
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- Labor history (New York, N.Y.)
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [1985]
- ©1985
- Physical Details
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- xx, 470 pages : charts ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 025201197X, 9780252011979, 0252011988, 9780252011986
- OCLC
- ocm11262047
- Essays taken from periodical Labor history.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- The old labor history and the new : in search of the American working class / David Brody -- The study of social mobility : ideological assumptions and conceptual bias / James A. Henretta -- The failure of female factory labor in colonial Boston / Gary B. Nash -- The mechanics and the Jeffersonians : New York, 1789-1801 / Alfred Young -- Should labor have supported Jackson? ; or questions the quantitative studies do not answer / Edward Pessen -- Workers' control of machine production in the nineteenth century / David Montgomery -- Trouble on the railroads in 1873-1874 : prelude to the 1877 crisis? / Herbert G. Gutman --
- Adolph Strasser and the origins of pure and simple trade unionism / H.M. Gitelman -- Trade unionism in the British and U.S. steel industries, 1888-1914 : a comparative study / James Holt -- Black workers and labor unions in Birmingham, Alabama, 1897-1904 / Paul B. Worthman -- The origins of western working-class radicalism, 1890-1905 / Melvyn Dubofsky -- The Passaic strike of 1912 and the two I.W.W.s / Michael H. Ebner -- Organizing the unorganizable : three Jewish women and their union / Alice Kessler-Harris -- Affluence for whom? : another look at prosperity and the working classes in the 1920s / Frank Stricker --
- "United we eat" : the creation and organization of the unemployed councils in 1930 / Daniel J. Leab -- Origins of the sit-down era : worker militancy and innovation in the rubber industry, 1934-1938 / Daniel Nelson -- Frank Murphy, the Thornhill decision, and picketing as free speech / Sidney Fine -- Delivering the goods : industrial unionism during World War II / Joshua Freeman -- Women workers and the UAW in the post-World War II period : 1945-1954 / Nancy Gabin -- Work and community life in a southern textile town / Dale Newman