Download or read book Forging a Union of Steel written by Paul F. Clark and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-06 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than any other labor victory of the 1930s, the emergence of the Steel Workers' Organizing Committee symbolized the rise of organized labor to a position of power in the United States. Yet, as the contributors to this volume demonstrate, the unionization of the steel industry, and most notably the role of SWOC and Philip Murray in that process, has received far less attention than it deserves. Beginning with a discussion of why the unionization of steel has been relatively neglected by labor historians, the contributors to this volume analyze early organizing efforts in steel, the major transformations wrought and felt by the union, and the character of the union members and leaders. Critical throughout is discussion of the role of Philip Murray in shaping the United Steelworkers of America into one of the premier economic, social, and political institution of the war years and beyond. Contributors: David Brody, Malvyn Dubovsky, Ronald L. Filippelli, Mark McColloch, Ronald W. Schatz

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Download or read book Forged in Fire written by Doug Nelson and published by Bookbaby. This book was released on 2020-03-12 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a popular style history of the nation's largest industrial union -- the United Steel Workers.

Download or read book Union Women written by Mary Margaret Fonow and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than a quarter century, steel mills in the United States and Canada have produced more than metal: they have produced a new kind of worker and union activist -- "Women of Steel." In an era labeled postfeminist and postindustrial, women have created spaces in this quintessentially male-dominated workforce from which to mobilize for their rights as women and workers. In Union Women, Mary Margaret Fonow captures the stories of the women of the United Steelworkers. She focuses on a tenacious group who used their developing power in the union to challenge sex discrimination and to advocate for women's rights, and applied their transnational resources to construct a feminist response to globalization and economic restructuring. In the process, they have transformed the organizations, resources, and networks of both the labor and women's movements, and have in turn transformed themselves into feminists. In Union Women Fonow uses statistical, archival, and ethnographic research methods to provide a broad historical account of women in the steel industry. Fonow's sweeping approach allows her to examine several key issues in social movement, feminist, and political theory, and to show that insights from these fields shape each other. She explores how social movements are gendered, how working-class women develop a feminist consciousness, and how this process is informed by intersecting demands of race, class, and gender. As a comparative, cross-national study, Union Women also demonstrates how different political and social cultures affect women's organizing and strategic decisions. Finally, Fonow emphasizes that economic restructuring and globalization pose immediate challenges forwomen as laborers and activists, and that, in order to survive, all unions must develop organizing and mobilization strategies informed by feminism and other social movements.

Download or read book Striking Steel written by Jack Metzgar and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2000-02-02 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Having come of age during a period of vibrant union-centered activism, Jack Metzgar begins this book wondering how his father, a U.S> Steel shop steward in the 1950s and '60s, and so many contemporary historians could forget what this country owes to the union movement. Combining personal memoir and historical narrative, Striking Steel argues for reassessment of unionism in American life during the second half of the twentieth century and a recasting of "official memory." As he traces the history of union steelworkers after World War II, Metzgar draws on his father's powerful stories about the publishing work in the mills, stories in which time is divided between "before the union" and since. His father, Johnny Metzgar, fought ardently for workplace rules as a means of giving "the men" some control over their working conditions and protection from venal foremen. He pursued grievances until he eroded management's authority, and he badgered foremen until he established shop-floor practices that would become part of the next negotiated contract. As a passionate advocate of solidarity, he urged coworkers to stick together so that the rules were upheld and everyone could earn a decent wage. Striking Steel's pivotal event is the four-month nationwide steel strike of 1959, a landmark union victory that has been all but erased from public memory. With remarkable tenacity, union members held out for the shop-floor rules that gave them dignity in the workplace and raised their standard of living. Their victory underscored the value of sticking together and reinforced their sense that they were contributing to a general improvement in American working and living conditions. The Metzgar family's story vividly illustrates the larger narrative of how unionism lifted the fortunes and prospects of working-class families. It also offers an account of how the broad social changes of the period helped to shift the balance of power in a conflict-ridden, patriarchal household. Even if the optimism of his generation faded in the upheavals of the 1960s, Johnny Metzgar's commitment to his union and the strike itself stands as an honorable example of what a collective action can and did achieve. Jack Metzgar's Striking Steel is a stirring call to remember and renew the struggle.

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Download or read book Making a New Deal written by Lizabeth Cohen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines how ordinary factory workers became unionists and national political participants by the mid-1930s.

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Download or read book Union Women written by Mary Margaret Fonow and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than a quarter century, steel mills in the United States and Canada have produced more than metal: they have produced a new kind of worker and union activist -- "Women of Steel." In an era labeled postfeminist and postindustrial, women have created spaces in this quintessentially male-dominated workforce from which to mobilize for their rights as women and workers. In Union Women, Mary Margaret Fonow captures the stories of the women of the United Steelworkers. She focuses on a tenacious group who used their developing power in the union to challenge sex discrimination and to advocate for women's rights, and applied their transnational resources to construct a feminist response to globalization and economic restructuring. In the process, they have transformed the organizations, resources, and networks of both the labor and women's movements, and have in turn transformed themselves into feminists. In Union Women Fonow uses statistical, archival, and ethnographic research methods to provide a broad historical account of women in the steel industry. Fonow's sweeping approach allows her to examine several key issues in social movement, feminist, and political theory, and to show that insights from these fields shape each other. She explores how social movements are gendered, how working-class women develop a feminist consciousness, and how this process is informed by intersecting demands of race, class, and gender. As a comparative, cross-national study, Union Women also demonstrates how different political and social cultures affect women's organizing and strategic decisions. Finally, Fonow emphasizes that economic restructuring and globalization pose immediate challenges forwomen as laborers and activists, and that, in order to survive, all unions must develop organizing and mobilization strategies informed by feminism and other social movements.

Download or read book FORGING OF IRON STEEL A TEXT written by William Allyn Richards and published by . This book was released on 2016-08-26 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Forging Of Iron And Steel A Text Book For The Use Of Students In Colleges Secondary Schools And The Shop written by Richards William Allyn and published by Sagwan Press. This book was released on 2018-02-08 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Download or read book Forging of Iron and Steel a Text Book for the Use of Students in Colleges Secondary Schools and the Shop written by William Allyn Richards and published by Rarebooksclub.com. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 64 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. 1915 edition. Excerpt: ...enough to keep the blast of air from striking the work. Also the work should be covered with a layer of coal to prevent its contact with the air. Otherwise the oxygen will decarbonize the steel and thus keep it from hardening. Steel will crack from sudden contraction if the fire is so shallow or the steel so placed in the fire that a cold blast strikes it. Especially is this so if the piece has thin projections, which owing to their small size are very susceptible to changes in temperature. If a big piece of steel is to be heated it is necessary to have the fire large enough to heat the piece uniformly. Charcoal is considered an ideal fuel for heating steel as it is practically pure carbon, but if it is used the fire should be kept well supplied with new coal, or it will be necessary to use a strong blast, which is likely to reach the steel and cause it to crack. It is stated by E. R. Markham in his most excellent work "The American Steel Worker," that high carbon steel will not become so hard on the surface if heated in charcoal fire as if heated in one burning coke. The best way is to heat in such a manner that the steel will not come in contact with the fuel: as in a muffle furnace, a piece of pipe or an iron box. When, however, the work is to be turned in a lathe afterwards, the open fire is better because it heats rapidly. Furnaces.--The muffle furnace (Fig. 166) is neat and easily managed. It is made to use illuminating gas, and make a very good furnace adapted to burn any kind The Gas Torch (Fig. 163) answers for heating an occasional small piece. The flame impinges upon the fire-brick and reflects the heat onto the piece which is can be procured in almost any size. The steel is placed in the muffle and the gas burned in...

Download or read book The Scientific Steel Worker written by Ozro A. Westover and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-02 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Scientific Steel Worker: A Practical Manual for Steel Workers and Blacksmiths In presenting this little book to the public the object is to give my readers practical instructions in the art of working steel according to scientific principles, and to do so in plain language and in the fewest possible words. I will not attempt to make a flowery display of literary talent, nor to amuse the readers with anything funny. The working of steel in all its many branches is a trade, or rather a profession, that in the past has not received much attention. The time is now at hand when steel workers must study the scientific principles of working steel or they will not be up to date. To be a good steel worker requires expert judgment and skill as well as patience. I learned my trade under a first-class steel worker in a blacksmith and machine shop, and have always made a specialty of steel work; have improved every opportunity to learn more about steel; have worked in thirty-six different shops and thus have had an extensive experience in steel working of all kinds, and have always been successful. In this work I recommend only what I know to be of value to steel workers. I am a member of Youngstown Union No. 83, I. B. of B. To my brothers and all those who wish to improve themselves as steel workers I dedicate his book. 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.

Download or read book The Amalgamated Association of Iron Steel and Tin Workers written by Jesse Squibb Robinson and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Making Steel written by Mark Reutter and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Making Steel chronicles the rise and fall of American steel by focusing on the fateful decisions made at the world's once largest steel mill at Sparrows Point, Maryland. Mark Reutter examines the business, production, and daily lives of workers as corporate leaders became more interested in their own security and enrichment than in employees, community, or innovative technology. This edition features 26 pages of photos, an author's preface, and a new chapter on the devastating effects of Bethlehem Steel's bankruptcy titled "The Discarded American Worker."

Download or read book John L Lewis written by Melvyn Dubofsky and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John L. Lewis (1880-1969), who ruled the United Mine Workers for four decades beginning in 1919, defied presidents, challenged Congress, and kept American political life in an uproar. Drawing upon previously untapped resources in the UMW archives and upon oral histories by major figures of the 1930s and 1940s, the authors have created a remarkable portrait of this 'self-made man' and his times. "This well-illustrated, engagingly-written volume deserves a prominent place on the bookshelf of anyone interested in the history of American labor in the twentieth century." -- Labor History