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Author : Francis Russell
Publisher : Viking Adult
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015003594820
Author : Francis Russell
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2005-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0807050334
On September 9, 1919, an American nightmare came true. The entire Boston police force deserted their posts, leaving the city virtually defenseless. Women were raped on street corners, stores were looted, and pedestrians were beaten and robbed while crowds not only looked on but cheered. The police strike and the mayhem that followed made an inconspicuous governor, Calvin Coolidge, known throughout America, turning him into a national hero and, eventually, a president. It also created a monster: for two days, more than 700,000 residents of Boston's urban core were without police protection, and the mob ruled the streets.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Beaufort Books
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015012215961
This text examines the issues associated with the September 1919 strike by Boston police officers. They walked off the job after issuing demands for higher pay. The fact the police did go on strike not only surprised the city of Boston, Massachussetts, which was the affected city, but also resulted in negative public opinions of police association with organized labor.
Author : Willard M. Oliver
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2023-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781538144121
At 5:45 p.m. on September 9, 1919, Boston was effectively without a police force, leaving the city victim to four days of crime, looting, and violence. Ordered to disband their newly organized police union, the officers voted to walk off their posts in protest, leading to the greatest tragedy in American policing: the Boston Police Strike of 1919. This is a compelling account of the historical antecedents that led to the strike and its complex political and societal ramifications. Through meticulous research, Oliver explores the perspectives and motivations of all involved, from the police officers attempting to unionize to the city’s leaders trying to retain command and control of its patrolmen.
Author : Francis Russell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Boston
ISBN : 0140044140
Author : Robert Charles Alther
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IND:30000041017900
Author : Dennis Lehane
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2009-10-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780061982286
"Gut-wrenching force...A majestic, fiery epic. The Given Day is a huge, impassioned, intensively researched book that brings history alive." - The New York Times Dennis Lehane, the New York Times bestselling author of Live by Night—now a Warner Bros. movie starring Ben Affleck—offers an unflinching family epic that captures the political unrest of a nation caught between a well-patterned past and an unpredictable future. This beautifully written novel of American history tells the story of two families—one black, one white—swept up in a maelstrom of revolutionaries and anarchists, immigrants and ward bosses, Brahmins and ordinary citizens, all engaged in a battle for survival and power at the end of World War I.
Author : Jack Tager
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 1555534619
The fascinating story of Boston's violent past is told for the first time in this history of the city's riots, from the food shortage uprisings in the 18th century to the anti-busing riots of the 20th century.
Author : Jonathan Randall White
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Police
ISBN : MSU:31293104638485
Author : Michael N. Kalafatas
Publisher : Brandeis University Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2015-02-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781611688153
On a warm and golden afternoon, October 4, 1960, a Lockheed Electra jet turboprop carrying 72 souls took off from Logan Airport. Seconds later, the plane slammed into a flock of 10,000 starlings, and abruptly plummeted into Winthrop Harbor. The collision took 62 lives and gave rise to the largest rescue mobilization in Boston's history, which included civilians in addition to police, firefighters, skindivers, and Navy and Coast Guard air-sea rescue teams. Largely because of the quick action and good seamanship of Winthrop citizens, many of them boys in small boats, ten passengers survived what the Civil Aeronautics Board termed "a non-survivable crash." Using firsthand interviews with survivors of the crash, rescuers, divers, aeronautics experts, and ornithologists, as well as a wide range of primary source material, Kalafatas foregrounds the story of the crash and its aftermath to anchor a broader inquiry into developments in the aeronautics industry, the increase in the number of big birds in the skies of North America, and the increasing danger of "bird strikes." Along the way he looks into interesting historical sidelights such as the creation of Logan Airport, the transformation of Boston's industrial base to new technologies, and the nature of journalistic investigations in the early 1960s. The book is a rare instance when an author can simultaneously write about a fascinating historical event and a clear and present danger today. Kalafatas calls for and itemizes solutions that protect both birds and the traveling public.
Author : Aaron Brenner,Benjamin Day,Immanuel Ness
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 793 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2015-01-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317457077
Strikes have been part of American labor relations from colonial days to the present, reflecting the widespread class conflict that has run throughout the nation's history. Against employers and their goons, against the police, the National Guard, local, state, and national officials, against racist vigilantes, against their union leaders, and against each other, American workers have walked off the job for higher wages, better benefits, bargaining rights, legislation, job control, and just plain dignity. At times, their actions have motivated groundbreaking legislation, defining new rights for all citizens; at other times they have led to loss of workers' lives. This comprehensive encyclopedia is the first detailed collection of historical research on strikes in America. To provide the analytical tools for understanding strikes, the volume includes two types of essays - those focused on an industry or economic sector, and those focused on a theme. Each industry essay introduces a group of workers and their employers and places them in their economic, political, and community contexts. The essay then describes the industry's various strikes, including the main issues involved and outcomes achieved, and assesses the impact of the strikes on the industry over time. Thematic essays address questions that can only be answered by looking at a variety of strikes across industries, groups of workers, and time, such as, why the number of strikes has declined since the 1970s, or why there was a strike wave in 1946. The contributors include historians, sociologists, anthropologists, and philosophers, as well as current and past activists from unions and other social movement organizations. Photos, a Topic Finder, a bibliography, and name and subject indexes add to the works appeal.
Author : Jack R. Greene
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 1575 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780415970006
First published in 1996, this work covers all the major sectors of policing in the United States. Political events such as the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, have created new policing needs while affecting public opinion about law enforcement. This third edition of the "Encyclopedia" examines the theoretical and practical aspects of law enforcement, discussing past and present practices.
Author : Robert L. Friedheim
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780295744612
�We are undertaking the most tremendous move ever made by LABOR in this country, a move which will lead�NO ONE KNOWS WHERE!� With these words echoing throughout the city, on February 6, 1919, 65,000 Seattle workers began one of the most important general strikes in US history. For six tense yet nonviolent days, the Central Labor Council negotiated with federal and local authorities on behalf of the shipyard workers whose grievances initiated the citywide walkout. Meanwhile, strikers organized to provide essential services such as delivering supplies to hospitals and markets, as well as feeding thousands at union-run dining facilities. Robert L. Friedheim�s classic account of the dramatic events of 1919, first published in 1964 and now enhanced with a new introduction, afterword, and photo essay by James N. Gregory, vividly details what happened and why. Overturning conventional understandings of the American Federation of Labor as a conservative labor organization devoted to pure and simple unionism, Friedheim shows the influence of socialists and the IWW in the city�s labor movement. While Seattle�s strike ended in disappointment, it led to massive strikes across the country that determined the direction of labor, capital, and government for decades. The Seattle General Strike is an exciting portrait of a Seattle long gone and of events that shaped the city�s reputation for left-leaning activism into the twenty-first century.
Author : Philip Sheldon Foner
Publisher : INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHERS CO
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0717806529
Labor and the Red Scare; Seattle and Winnipeg general strikes; Boston telephone and police strikes; Streetcar strikes in Chicago, Denver, Knoxville, Kansas City; strikes in clothing, textile, coal and steel; The open-shop drive; Strikes and Black-white relationships; the AFL and the Black worker; the IWW; Communist Party founded; Political action 1918-1920.
Author : Donna M. Wells
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2003-10-03
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781439612040
The Boston Police Department was formally organized in 1854, but the department traces its origins to the establishment of a night watch of six men and an officer in 1631. At a town meeting in 1701, watchmen were instructed to be "on duty from ten o'clock till broad daylight. . . . They are to go about silently with watch bills, not using any bell, and no watchman to smoke tobacco while walking their rounds; and when they see occasion, to call to persons to take care of their light." Today, the duties of the Boston police officer are supported by advanced forensic technologies and modern equipment. Officers walk neighborhood beats, control local crime, and are ready at a moment's notice to respond to acts of terrorism. Boston Police Department, the first comprehensive photographic history of the department, details one hundred fifty years of crime fighting in Boston. The collection includes images of the 1919 Boston Police Strike; an overview of specialized units, vehicles, uniforms, and equipment; and an honor roll of officers who have fallen in the line of duty.