Download or read book The Rise of the United Association National Unionism in the Pipe Trades 1884 1924 written by Martin Segal and published by Harvard University Wertheim Publications Committee. This book was released on 1970 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historical account of the evolution of the united association of journeymen and apprentices of the plumbing and pipe fitting industry, the trade union organisation of plumbers, fitter assemblers and other workers in the pipe trades in the USA and Canada from 1884 to 1924.
Download or read book Laboring for Freedom written by Daniel Jacoby and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-05-20 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text examines the concept of freedom in the context of American labour history. Nine essays develop themes in this history which show that liberty of contract and inalienable rights form two contradictory traditions concerning freedom.
Download or read book Encyclopedia of U S Labor and Working class History written by Eric Arnesen and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2007 with total page 1734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description
Download or read book Skilled Hands Strong Spirits written by Grace Palladino and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-05 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Skilled Hands, Strong Spirits follows the history of the Building and Construction Trades Department from the emergence of building trades councils in the age of the skyscraper; through treacherous fights over jurisdiction as new building materials and methods of work evolved; and through numerous Department campaigns to improve safety standards, work with contractors to promote unionized construction, and forge a sense of industrial unity among its fifteen (and at times nineteen) autonomous and highly diverse affiliates. Arranged chronologically, Skilled Hands, Strong Spirits is based on archival research in Department, AFL-CIO, and U.S. government records as well as numerous union journals, the local and national press, and interviews with former Department officers. Grace Palladino makes the history of the building trades come alive. By investigating the sources of conflict and unity within the Building and Construction Trades Department over time, and demonstrating how building trades unions dealt with problems and opportunities in the past, she provides a historical context for the current generation of workers and leaders as they devise new strategies to suit their current situation.
Download or read book A Broad and Ennobling Spirit written by Ronald Mendel and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2003-10-30 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the introduction of new production methods and technological innovation, tradesmen and workers encountered new challenges. This study examines the development of trade unions as a manifestation of working class experience in late Gilded Age America. It underscores both the distinctive and the common features of trade unionism across four occupations: building tradesmen, cigar makers, garment workers, and printers. While reactions differed, the unions representing these workers displayed a convergence in their strategic orientation, programmatic emphasis and organizational modus operandi. As such, they were not disparate organizations, concerned only with sectional interests, but participants in an organizational-network in which cooperation and solidarity became benchmarks for the labor movement. Printers coped with the mechanization of typesetting by promoting greater cooperation among the different craft unions within the industry, with the aim of establishing effective job control. Building tradesmen exerted a pragmatic militancy, which combined strikes with overtures to the employers' business sense, to uphold the standards of craft labor. Cigar makers, especially handicraftsmen who found their position threatened by machinery and the growth of factory production, debated the merits of a craft-based union against the possible advantages of an industrial-oriented organization. Garment workers, caught in the snare of a sweating system of labor in which wages and work loads were inversely related, organized unions to mount strikes during the busy season in the hope of securing higher wages, only to see them whither in the midst of slack periods.
Download or read book The Era Was Lost written by Glenn Dyer and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2024-10-29 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exciting yet relatively unknown episode in American labor history took place in New York City between 1965 and 1975. Rank-and-file members of numerous unions caught a "strike fever" as they challenged the entrenched power of some of the country's most powerful politicians, employers, and union leaders in a wave of contract rejections, wildcat strikes, and electoral campaigns. Workers in unions across New York wanted more than better contracts: they contested control of the work process, racism on the job, and workers' place in America's socioeconomic hierarchy while implicitly and explicitly demanding greater democratic control of their representative organizations. Some initial challenges were effective and succeeded in delivering better contracts and unseating undemocratic leaders. However, those early successes were short-lived. Glenn Dyer traces the way workers were met with employer recalcitrance and union attacks that proved too powerful to organize against. In the face of this resistance, workers retreated into a survivalist attitude of accommodation and resignation, contributing to the decline of social democratic New York and working-class power in the city. Ultimately, Dyer argues, the failures of the rank-and-file organizing efforts in New York City, which was the biggest center of organized labor in the country, shows how stunted workers' aspirations and numerous defeats not only uprooted the foundations of New York's uniquely social democratic polity but also ushered in a national era of increased working-class subservience that has resonance today.
Download or read book Pride and Solidarity written by Richard Schneirov and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Story of the Savannah written by David Kuechle and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1971 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Account of labour disputes arising from unsatisfactory labour relations on the n.s. Savannah, the first nuclear powered merchant ship in the USA - covers government policy, attitudes of the shipbuilding industry and the seafarers' trade union organisations to grievances in respect of working conditions and manning scales on the ship, arbitration procedures, relevant maritime questions, legal aspects of collective bargaining negotiations and of the collective agreement, etc. References.
Download or read book The Racketeer s Progress written by Andrew Wender Cohen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-05-03 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Racketeer's Progress explores the contested and contingent origins of the modern American economy by examining the violent resistance to its development. Historians often portray Chicago as an unregulated industrial metropolis, composed of factories and immigrant labourers. In fact, the city was home to thousands of craftsmen - carpenters, teamsters, barbers, butchers, etc. - who formed unions and associations that governed commerce through pickets, assaults, and bombings. Working together, these groups forcefully challenged the power of national corporations and physically managed the development of mass culture in the city."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science written by and published by . This book was released on 1972-03 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Monthly Labor Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 750 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publishes in-depth articles on labor subjects, current labor statistics, information about current labor contracts, and book reviews.
Download or read book Labor Unions written by Gary M. Fink and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1977 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains historical sketches of more than two hundred national unions and labor federations that have been part of the American labor movement
Download or read book Dispute Resolution written by Bloomsbury Publishing and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1984-05-30 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Dunlop is one of the world's outstanding figures in the theory and practice of industrial relations. In this book he advocates a better means to resolve disputes. He stresses that each side must work out its own internal accommodation as a necessary prerequisite to across-the-table resolution.
Download or read book The History of Wisconsin Volume III written by Robert C. Nesbit and published by Wisconsin Historical Society. This book was released on 2013-03-28 with total page 745 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the years from 1873-1893 lacked the well known, dramatic events of the periods before and after, this period presented a major transformation in Wisconsin's economy. The third volume in the History of Wisconsin series presents a balanced, comprehensive, and witty account of these two decades of dynamic growth and change in Wisconsin society, business, and industry. Concentrating on three major areas: the economy, communities, and politics and government, this volume in the History of Wisconsin series adds substantially to our knowledge and understanding of this crucial, but generally little-understood, period.
Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries Third Series written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by Copyright Office, Library of Congress. This book was released on 1972 with total page 1830 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Quarterly Journal of Economics written by Charles Franklin Dunbar and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. 1-22 include the section "Recent publications upon economics".
Download or read book National Union Catalog written by and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes entries for maps and atlases.
