Download or read book Legendary Labor Leaders written by Thomas Streissguth and published by The Oliver Press, Inc.. This book was released on 1998 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Also profiles Samuel Gompers, Eugene V. Debs, William D. "Big Bill" Haywood, Mary "Mother" Jones, and John L. Lewis.
Download or read book Labor Leaders in America written by Melvyn Dubofsky and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here are the life stories of the men and women who have led the labor movement in America from Reconstruction to recent times, from William H. Sylvis, the first major labor leader, to Cesar Chavez, who organized California's farm workers in the 1960s. All of the chapters have been written expressly for this volume by leading authorities, several of whom are authors of booklength biographies of their subjects. Taken together these readable yet authoritative life studies provide a broad overview of the American labor movement that will appeal to the student and lay reader as well as to the specialist in social history and labor and industrial relations.
Download or read book Famous Labor Leaders written by Patricia Daniels and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of labor union development is traced through the biographies of its most influential leaders.
Download or read book Most Uncommon Jacksonians written by Edward Pessen and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1967-06-30 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The age of Jackson saw the beginnings of America's labor movement in the emergence both of trade unions and of the Working Men's political parties. The leadership of this movement was one of its most outstanding and fascinating features. These radical leaders were "uncommon Jacksonians" in that they stood apart from both main currents of their day—the optimistic pursuit of material gain, and the moralistic criticism of that pursuit by traditionalists. They advocated a different, if minority, ideology, and it is this ideology that is Professor Pessen's major concern in this book. The labor spokesmen were as diverse and complex as the movement they led. Some were employers rather than laborers and even the union leaders included men who had never actually soiled their hands in manual toil. In a sense these leaders were middle-class idealists interested in every variety of reform. They were drawn to labor largely because they believed it the most productive as well as the most victimized group in American society. For all their differences, however, the leaders' social views were strikingly similar. They saw America as a class society dominated by the wealthy in general, capitalists in particular, with the control of government and the courts in the hands of the rich. Their picture of the contemporary social landscape was one marked by the poverty of the masses and vast disparities in wealth, power, and prestige. Greatly influenced by English radical thought, they rejected the Malthusian dictum that the poor were responsible for their own misery. They fixed the blame instead on a number of social institutions, the chief villain of which was private property. Without using the word "socialism," the leaders' vision of the good society was one in which no man profited from the labor of another, and the guiding principle was "to each according to his deeds." Though a complex and often inconsistent phenomenon, the political movement represented by the early Working Men's Parties was an authentic expression of labor's views, Professor Pessen believes. This study challenges the legend that organized labor enthusiastically supported Jackson, and the longstanding myth that American labor movements have characteristically been conservative. Most Uncommon Jacksonians adds new perspectives to the history of American social thought.
Download or read book Biographical Dictionary of American Labor Leaders written by Gary M. Fink and published by Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press. This book was released on 1974 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biographys, trade union officers, leadership of labour movement and trade unions, USA - tables giving educational level, union affiliation, preferences regarding political party and religion.
Download or read book American Labor Leaders written by Charles Allan Madison and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hard Work written by Melvyn Dubofsky and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2024-04-22 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A career-spanning collection of writings by the legendary labor historian One of American labor history's most prominent scholars, Melvyn Dubofsky curated an accessible style and historical reach that have long marked his work as required reading for students and scholars. This collection juxtaposes Dubofsky's early writings with scholarship from the 1990s. Selections include work on western working-class radicalism, U.S. labor history in transnational and comparative settings, and the impact of technological change on American worker’s movements. Throughout, the writings provide an invaluable eyewitness perspective on the academic and political climate of the 1960s and 1970s while tracing the development of labor history as a discipline. An exploration of important themes in labor history, Hard Work combines essential scholarship with the story of how past and present interact in the work of historians.
Download or read book A Preliminary Bibliography of American Labor Leader Biographies written by New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations. Library and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book American Labor Leaders Personalities and Forces in the Labor Movement Etc written by Charles Allan Madison and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Men who Lead Labor written by Richard Bransten and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Nothing in the years of this turbulent decade has produced a greater stir than the labor developments of 1937. Cleavage of opinion and sympathy have been even sharper than in the presidential election of 1936. To thousands of people John L. Lewis of the C.I.O. is a magnificent patriot fighting for a noble cause--and to other thousands he wears horns and a tail. Opinion divides as sharply on the other leading figures of the labor world--William Green of the A.F. of L., Hutcheson of the Carpenters, Heywood Broun of the Newspaper Guild, Bridges of the West Coast. Minton and Stuart have produced in Men Who Lead Labor a series of candid biographies of these men in every day's news--men who are influencing thousands of destinies and the course of our national life. These biographical sketches are vivid and factual, written without fear or favor. In a very real sense this series of brilliant personal histories sketches also the inside story of labor's history during the past decades--a history that includes episodes of corruption and racketeering as well as honest struggle against rotten conditions."--dust jacket flap.
Download or read book Divided Loyalties written by Craig Phelan and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Mitchell was a contradictory figure, representing the best and worst labor leadership had to offer at the turn of the century. Articulate, intelligent, and a skillful negotiator, Mitchell made effective use of the press and political opportunities as well as the muscle of his union. He was also manipulative, calculating, tremendously ambitious, and prone to place more trust in the business community than in his own rank and file. Phelan relates Mitchell's life to many issues currently being debated by labor historians, such as organized labor's search for respectability, its development of a large bureaucracy, its ambiguous relationship to the state, and its suppression of worker input. In addition, he shows how Mitchell's life illuminates broad economic and political developments in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Download or read book The Labor Leader written by Eli Ginzberg and published by Toronto, Ont. : s.n.. This book was released on 1948 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The New Men of Power written by Charles Wright Mills and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When C. Wright Mills published The New Men of Power in 1948, he thought labor leaders a new strategic elite and the unions a set of vanguard organizations that were crucial to "stopping the main drift towards war and slump." Today, as the unions once again seek to play a decisive role in American life, Mills' remarkable probe into the structure and ideology of mid-twentieth-century trade unionism remains essential reading. A new introduction by historian Nelson Lichtenstein offers insight into the Millsian political world at the time he wrote The New Men of Power.
Download or read book Hard Work written by Melvyn Dubofsky and published by . This book was released on 2000-04-17 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A career-spanning collection of writings by the legendary labor historian One of American labor history's most prominent scholars, Melvyn Dubofsky curated an accessible style and historical reach that have long marked his work as required reading for students and scholars. This collection juxtaposes Dubofsky's early writings with scholarship from the 1990s. Selections include work on western working-class radicalism, U.S. labor history in transnational and comparative settings, and the impact of technological change on American worker’s movements. Throughout, the writings provide an invaluable eyewitness perspective on the academic and political climate of the 1960s and 1970s while tracing the development of labor history as a discipline. An exploration of important themes in labor history, Hard Work combines essential scholarship with the story of how past and present interact in the work of historians.
Download or read book Labor Hall of Fame written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Harry Bridges written by Robert W. Cherny and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2023-01-10 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The iconic leader of one of America’s most powerful unions, Harry Bridges put an indelible stamp on the twentieth century labor movement. Robert Cherny’s monumental biography tells the life story of the figure who built the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) into a labor powerhouse that still represents almost 30,000 workers. An Australian immigrant, Bridges worked the Pacific Coast docks. His militant unionism placed him at the center of the 1934 West Coast Waterfront Strike and spurred him to expand his organizing activities to warehouse laborers and Hawaiian sugar and pineapple workers. Cherny examines the overall effectiveness of Bridges as a union leader and the decisions and traits that made him effective. Cherny also details the price paid by Bridges as the US government repeatedly prosecuted him for his left-wing politics. Drawing on personal interviews with Bridges and years of exhaustive research, Harry Bridges places an extraordinary individual and the ILWU within the epic history of twentieth-century labor radicalism.
Download or read book Portrait of an American Labor Leader William L Hutcheson written by Maxwell C. Raddock and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-02 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Portrait of an American Labor Leader, William L. Hutcheson: Saga of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America, 1881-1954 William L. Hutcheson's extensive personal files and correspondence, extending over a period of forty years, have been at my disposal through out. These were made available to me, and that for the first time to any writer without reservations, by Maurice A. Hutcheson, and by u.b. General Secretary Albert E. Fischer. Included are a great variety of socially and historically significant items, which shed much new light on the character and personality of our subject. The discoveries I have made therefrom will, I am confident, add much to the rounded picture of William Levi Hutcheson. Also made available to me in their entirety were the Executive Board's minutes of the Brotherhood, fortified by vital data from the parent American Federation of Labor. I have, of course, thoroughly examined the published proceedings of the union itself. In a year spent on research, extensive travel and scores of interviews I have profited from the generous help of more people than a brief preface can mention. I should like to single out at least those who were able to supply information to me from their long and intimate association with Hutcheson himself and their experiences in the labor movement. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
