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Author : Steve Early
Publisher : Haymarket Books
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781608460991
Trade union leader and journalist Steve Early discusses how to reverse American labour's current decline.
Author : Mark A. Lause
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780252097386
Monumental and revelatory, Free Labor explores labor activism throughout the country during a period of incredible diversity and fluidity: the American Civil War. Mark A. Lause describes how the working class radicalized during the war as a response to economic crisis, the political opportunity created by the election of Abraham Lincoln, and the ideology of free labor and abolition. Grappling with a broad array of organizations, tactics, and settings, Lause portrays not only the widely known leaders and theoreticians, but also the unsung workers who struggled on the battlefield and the picket line. His close attention to women and African Americans, meanwhile, dismantles notions of the working class as synonymous with whiteness and maleness. In addition, Lause offers a nuanced consideration of race's role in the politics of national labor organizations, in segregated industries in the border North and South, and in black resistance in the secessionist South, creatively reading self-emancipation as the largest general strike in U.S. history.
Author : Cal Winslow
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2010-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781458775412
A clear analysis of tactics and politics, this thorough account examines the dispute between the United Healthcare Workers (UHW) union in California and its 'parent' organization the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) - one of the most important labor conflicts in the United States today. It explores how the UHW rank and file took umbrage with the SEIUs rejection of traditional labor values of union democracy and class struggle and their tactics of wheeling and dealing with top management and politicians. The resulting rift and retaliation from SEIU leadership culminated in the UHW membership being forced to break out and form a brand new union, the National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW). Timed to coincide with elections in California, this detailed history calls for a reexamination of the ideological and structural underpinnings of todays labor movement and illustrates how a seemingly local conflict speaks to the rights of laborers everywhere to control their own fates.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1053727001
Author : Steve Early
Publisher : Haymarket Books
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2011-03-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781608461004
“Should be required reading for all workers’ rights advocates.” —Bernie Sanders Between 2008 and 2010, the progressive wing of the US labor movement tore itself apart in a series of internecine struggles. More than $140 million was expended, by all sides, on organizing conflicts that tarnished union reputations and undermined the campaign for real health care and labor law reform. Campus and community allies, along with many rank-and-file union members, were left angered and dismayed. In this incisive book, labor journalist Steve Early draws on scores of interviews and on his own union organizing experience to explain why and how these labor civil wars occurred. He examines the bitter disputes about union structure, membership rights, organizing strategy, and contract standards that enveloped SEIU, UNITE HERE, the California Nurses Association, and independent organizations like the Federación de Maestros de Puerto Rico and the new National Union of Healthcare Workers in California. Along the way, we meet rank-and-file activists, local union officers, national leaders, and concerned friends of labor who were drawn into the fray, as Early considers the quest to stem the tide of the labor movement’s long decline.
Author : Philip Sheldon Foner
Publisher : Holmes & Meier Publishers
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015008262969
Author : Philip Sheldon Foner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105038544396
Presents a comprehensive documentation of the steady growth of labor opposition to U.S. involvement in Vietnam, from a few voices in a minority of unions to a majority labor position.
Author : Grace Palladino
Publisher : North's Civil War
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 0823225917
Winner of the Avery Craven Prize, this classic account of the social and economic impact of the Civil War explores the complicated intersections of class, region, ethnicity, and labor militancy during a tumultuous era of social change. It is a model case study of the social and cultural context of the Civil War.“Demonstrates convincingly that, in the midst of a national civil war, coal miners and operators fought another civil war . . . a first-rate piece of scholarship.”—The Journal of American History
Author : David Montgomery
Publisher : Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press ; Paris : Editions de la Maison des Sciences de l'Homme
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1987-08-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0521225795
Traces the labor movement from the end of the Civil War to the 1920s, and looks at the relationships between workers of different ethnic backgrounds
Author : Don H. Doyle
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017-02-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469631103
American Civil Wars takes readers beyond the battlefields and sectional divides of the U.S. Civil War to view the conflict from outside the national arena of the United States. Contributors position the American conflict squarely in the context of a wider transnational crisis across the Atlantic world, marked by a multitude of civil wars, European invasions and occupations, revolutionary independence movements, and slave uprisings—all taking place in the tumultuous decade of the 1860s. The multiple conflicts described in these essays illustrate how the United States' sectional strife was caught up in a larger, complex struggle in which nations and empires on both sides of the Atlantic vied for the control of the future. These struggles were all part of a vast web, connecting not just Washington and Richmond but also Mexico City, Havana, Santo Domingo, and Rio de Janeiro and--on the other side of the Atlantic--London, Paris, Madrid, and Rome. This volume breaks new ground by charting a hemispheric upheaval and expanding Civil War scholarship into the realms of transnational and imperial history. American Civil Wars creates new connections between the uprisings and civil wars in and outside of American borders and places the United States within a global context of other nations. Contributors: Matt D. Childs, University of South Carolina Anne Eller, Yale University Richard Huzzey, University of Liverpool Howard Jones, University of Alabama Patrick J. Kelly, University of Texas at San Antonio Rafael de Bivar Marquese, University of Sao Paulo Erika Pani, College of Mexico Hilda Sabato, University of Buenos Aires Steve Sainlaude, University of Paris IV Sorbonne Christopher Schmidt-Nowara, Tufts University Jay Sexton, University of Oxford
Author : Eric Arnesen
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 1734 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780415968263
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Author : Steve Early
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781583674277
Save Our Unions: Dispatches From A Movement in Distress brings together recent essays and reporting by labor journalist Steve Early. The author illuminates the challenges facing U.S. workers, whether they’re trying to democratize their union, win a strike, defend past contract gains, or bargain with management for the first time. Drawing on forty years of personal experience, Early writes about cross-border union campaigning, labor strategies for organizing and health care reform, and political initiatives that might lessen worker dependence on the Democratic Party. Save Our Unions contains vivid portraits of rank-and-file heroes and heroines, both well-known and unsung. It takes readers to union conventions and funerals, strikes and picket-lines, celebrations of labor’s past and struggles to insure that unions still have a future in the 21st century. The book’s insight, analysis and advocacy make this an important contribution to the project of labor revitalization and reform.
Author : David Brian Robertson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Capitalism
ISBN : UVA:X004438133
Capital, Labor, and State is a systematic and thorough examination of American labor policy from the Civil War to the New Deal. David Brian Robertson skillfully demonstrates that although most industrializing nations began to limit employer freedom and regulate labor conditions in the 1900s, the United States continued to allow total employer discretion in decisions concerning hiring, firing, and workplace conditions. Robertson argues that the American constitution made it much more difficult for the American Federation of Labor, government, and business to cooperate for mutual gain as extensively as their counterparts abroad, so that even at the height of New Deal, American labor market policy remained a patchwork of limited protections, uneven laws, and poor enforcement, lacking basic national standards even for child labor.
Author : Richard Owen Boyer,Herbert Montfort Morais
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : United States
ISBN : OCLC:48273308
Author : Daniel E. Bender,Jana K. Lipman
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2015-07-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781479871254
Millions of laborers, from the Philippines to the Caribbean, performed the work of the United States empire. Forging a global economy connecting the tropics to the industrial center, workers harvested sugar, cleaned hotel rooms, provided sexual favors, and filled military ranks. Placing working men and women at the center of the long history of the U.S. empire, these essays offer new stories of empire that intersect with the “grand narratives” of diplomatic affairs at the national and international levels. Missile defense, Cold War showdowns, development politics, military combat, tourism, and banana economics share something in common—they all have labor histories. This collection challenges historians to consider the labor that formed, worked, confronted, and rendered the U.S. empire visible. The U.S. empire is a project of global labor mobilization, coercive management, military presence, and forced cultural encounter. Together, the essays in this volume recognize the United States as a global imperial player whose systems of labor mobilization and migration stretched from Central America to West Africa to the United States itself. Workers are also the key actors in this volume. Their stories are multi-vocal, as workers sometimes defied the U.S. empire’s rhetoric of civilization, peace, and stability and at other times navigated its networks or benefited from its profits. Their experiences reveal the gulf between the American ‘denial of empire’ and the lived practice of management, resource exploitation, and military exigency. When historians place labor and working people at the center, empire appears as a central dynamic of U.S. history.