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The Encyclopedia of Strikes in American History.
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 r...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor and Francis,
2015.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Editors and Contributors; List of Abbreviations; Timeline; Topic Finder; Introduction to The Encyclopedia of Strikes in American History; Types of Strikes; Part I. Strikes: Theory and Practice; Strikes in American History; Theories of Strikes; Socialist Theories of Strikes; The News Media and Strikes; The Business Community's Mercenaries: Strikebreakers and Union Busters; Corporate Strike Strategy; The Decline of Strikes; Strike Lessons From the Last Twenty-Five Years: What it Takes to Walk Out and Win.
- Part II. Strikes and Working-Class CultureDressed for Defiance: The Clothing of Female Strikers, 1910-1935; ""Better Than a Hundred Speeches"": The Strike Song; Civil Rights Strikes; World War II Hate Strikes; Polish Workers and Strikes, 1900-1937; North Carolina Women on Strike; The Catholic Church and Strikes; Strikes Led by the Trade Union Unity League, 1929-1934; Part III. Strike Waves; The Strike Wave of 1877; World War I Era Strikes; The Rise and Fall of the Sit-Down Strike; The 1945-1946 Strike Wave; Strikes in the United States Since World War II; Part IV Public Sector Strikes.
- Labor and the Boston Police Strike of 1919Teachers' Strikes; Postal Workers' Strikes; Three Strikes Against the New York City Transit System; Social Workers and Strikes; Part V Strikes in the Private Sector; Section 1. Manufacturing, Mining, and Agricultural Strikes; Strikes and Apprenticeship in the United States; Strikes in the Nineteenth-Century Cotton Textile Industry in the Northeast United States; Twentieth-Century Textile Strikes; Garment Worker Strikes; Steel Strikes Before 1935; Steel on Strike: From 1936 to the Present; Unionizing the ""Jungle"": A Century of Meatpacking Strikes.
- Automobile Workers' StrikesRubber Workers' Strikes; Plumbing Strikes; Agricultural Strikes; Labor and the Transformation of the Hawaiian Sugar Industry; The Redwood Lumber and Sawmill Workers' Strike; The Watsonville Cannery Strike, 1985-1987; Coal Miners on Strike and the Formation of a National Union; Mesabi Iron Miners' Strikes; The Rise and Fall of Rank-and-File Miner Militancy, 1964-2007; Section 2. Infrastructure Industry Strikes; Labor Upheaval on the Nation's Railroads, 1877-1922; Strikes by Telegraph Workers; Telegraph Messenger Strikes and Their Impact on Telegraph Unionization.
- Trolley WarsSeafarers' Strikes in American History; Longshoremen's Strikes, 1900-1920; Strikes on the Port of New York, 1945-1960; Strikes in the U.S. Airline Industry, 1919-2004; Aerospace Engineer Strikes; Teamster Strikes and Organizing, 1934-1964; Section 3. Service Industry Strikes; Newsboy Strikes; Retail Workers' Strikes; Waitress Strikes; Office Workers' Strikes; Strikes in the Motion Picture Industry; Attorney Strikes at The Legal Aid Society of New York City; Musician Strikes; Striking the Ivory Tower: Student Employee Strikes at Private Universities.