Download or read book American Trade Unionism written by William Z. Foster and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book American Trade Unionism written by George Milton Janes and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book American Trade Unionism written by William Z. Foster and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Studies in American Trade Unionism written by Jacob Harry Hollander and published by New York : H. Holt. This book was released on 1905 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of 12 essays on minimum wages, collective bargaining, trade-union rules, etc.

Download or read book A History of Trade Unionism in the United States written by Selig Perlman and published by IndyPublish.com. This book was released on 1922 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Beneficiary Features of American Trade Unions Kennedy James B written by Kennedy James B and published by . This book was released on 2009-11-20 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A passage from the book... The American trade unions have developed beneficiary functions far more slowly than the trade unions of England and Germany. Only since about 1880 has there been any considerable increase in such activities. Prior to that time the national unions with few exceptions paid no benefits.[1] The local unions, here and there, developed beneficiary systems, but these were not continuous nor, in many cases, important.The history of trade-union beneficiary activities in the United States may be roughly divided into three periods. In the first, extending from the beginning of the century to about 1830, the local associations laid great stress on their beneficiary functions. The societies of printers organized from 1794 to 1815 in the most important American cities were typical of the period. In all of them, as far as the extant records show, the beneficiary functions were regarded as equally important with the trade-regulating activities. American trade unionism owed its origin as much to the desire to associate for mutual insurance as to the desire to establish trade rules.The second period, from 1830 to 1880, was marked by the subordination of beneficiary to trade purposes. The maintenance of a minimum rate and other trade policies came to occupy the foremost place in the program of the local unions. In this period national unions were formed in many trades.

Download or read book American Trade Unionism written by George Milton Janes and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER IX THE TREND OF DEVELOPMENT ' A TRADE-UNION," according to one authorjfj ity, "is a continuous association of wageearners for the purpose of maintaining or improving the conditions of their employment." l A trade-union although usually including benevolent and fraternal features is something more than a mere fraternal order which might easily be a continuous association of wage-earners. The purpose of maintaining or improving conditions of employment involves means and ends and a more or less fixed policy which makes an organization a trade-union. Trade-unionism involves collective bargaining as over against individual bargaining for wages and conditions of employment and the use of the strike as a weapon of last resort in enforcing demands. A number of American tradeunions began as mutual benevolent and fraternal societies and have become under economic pressure regular labor organizations. A similar development is now going on in a number of organizations resembling in some respects trade-unions, and it is the purpose of this chapter to show by the study of concrete instances the trend of this development. i Webb, Sidney and Beatrice, History of Trade Unionism. 1902, p. 1. The dividing line between fraternal or beneficiary organizations and trade-unions seems to lie in the matter of collective bargaining and in the attitude towards strikes. The National Association of Stationary Engineers, for example, which was organized in 1882, lays stress upon educational and beneficiary features and declares that " this association shall at no time be used for the furtherance of strikes, or for the purpose of interfering in any way between its members and their employers as to wages." 1 Strikes, moreover, it is urged, are unnecessary...

Download or read book The Jewish Unions in America written by Bernard Weinstein and published by Open Book Publishers. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Newly arrived in New York in 1882 from Tsarist Russia, the sixteen-year-old Bernard Weinstein discovered an America in which unionism, socialism, and anarchism were very much in the air. He found a home in the tenements of New York and for the next fifty years he devoted his life to the struggles of fellow Jewish workers. The Jewish Unions in America blends memoir and history to chronicle this time. It describes how Weinstein led countless strikes, held the unions together in the face of retaliation from the bosses, investigated sweatshops and factories with the aid of reformers, and faced down schisms by various factions, including Anarchists and Communists. He co-founded the United Hebrew Trades and wrote speeches, articles and books advancing the cause of the labor movement. From the pages of this book emerges a vivid picture of workers’ organizations at the beginning of the twentieth century and a capitalist system that bred exploitation, poverty, and inequality. Although workers’ rights have made great progress in the decades since, Weinstein’s descriptions of workers with jobs pitted against those without, and American workers against workers abroad, still carry echoes today. The Jewish Unions in America is a testament to the struggles of working people a hundred years ago. But it is also a reminder that workers must still battle to live decent lives in the free market. For the first time, Maurice Wolfthal’s readable translation makes Weinstein’s Yiddish text available to English readers. It is essential reading for students and scholars of labor history, Jewish history, and the history of American immigration.

Download or read book Trade Unionism in the United States written by Robert Franklin Hoxie and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book American Federation of Labor written by American Federation of Labor and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Trade Unionism in the United States written by Robert Franklin Hoxie and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book As Unions Mature written by Richard Allen Lester and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-12-08 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With 18 million members and with power and influence that penetrate industry, the financial centers, community life, and even foreign trade, trade unionism in America has come of age. Gone is much of the old militancy and aggressiveness that so characterized unions before World War II. In this short book a wise and experienced observer attempts to explain why. He points out the factors that influence the ageing of unions, the settling clown process, and the social and economic implications of advanced unionism. He examines the experiences of five major unions, Amalgamated Clothing Workers, United Automobile Workers, the Carpenters, the Teamsters, and the United Mine Workers; and for comparison the labor movement trends in both Britain and Sweden. Here is a foundation for understanding the "mature" unions of today and for intelligent judgment of current proposals for union reform. Originally published in 1958. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Download or read book Trade Unions written by William Trant and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The paradox of American unionism written by Seymour Martin Lipset and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors examine the reluctance of Americans to join unions, even though they greatly approve of the institution, comparing the experience of Canada, where union numbers are higher but the approval rating much lower. They uncover deep-seated differences in identity and outlook between the two countries.

Download or read book The Machinists written by Mark Perlman and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1961 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A truly authoritative study of a "model American union" (IAM has long been known as one of the most ethical and efficient), based on complete access to the organization's files. Beginning with an interpretive history to 1953, the book analyzes IAM's formal and informal structure and its policies with regard to other unions, employers, public, and government, isolating dynamic features of the decision making process. It includes documented evidence of the difficulties and analyzes both sides of the many controversies IAM has faced.

Download or read book Ebb and Flow in Trade Unionism written by Leo Wolman and published by New York : National Bureau of Economic Research. This book was released on 1936 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The American Labor Movement written by David Brody and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1971 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compilation of essays on the origins of the labour movement and the development of trade union in the USA - covers trade union leadership and membership, historical and political aspects, working class radicalism, voluntarism, labour relations, racial discrimination against Blacks in the trade unions, etc. Bibliography pp. 159 to 162 and references.