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The encyclopedia of strikes in American history /
A collection of historical research on strikes in America comprised of two types of essays, those focused on an industry or economic sector and those focused on a theme. This approach provides a detailed perspective as well broad historical and social coverage of the topic.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Armonk, N.Y. :
M.E. Sharpe,
©2009.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction to the Encyclopedia of strikes in American history / Aaron Brenner
- Types of strikes / Aaron Brenner
- Part I. Strikes: theory and practice: Introduction / by Aaron Brenner ; Strikes in American history / Aaron Brenner ; Theories of strikes / Gerald Friedman ; Socialist theories of strikes / Christopher Phelps ; The news media and strikes / Christopher R. Martin ; The business community's mercenaries: strikebreakers and union busters / Robert Smith ; Corporate strike strategy / Kim Phillips-Fein ; The decline of strikes / Jeremy Brecher ; Strike lessons from the last twenty-five years: what it takes to walk out and win / Steve Early
- Part II. Strikes and working class culture: Introduction / by Benjamin Day ; Dressed for defiance: the clothing of female strikers, 1910-1935 / Deirdre Clemente ; Better than a hundred speeches: the strike song / Timothy P. Lynch ; Civil rights strikes / Todd Michney ; World War II hate strikes / James Wolfinger ; Polish workers and strikes, 1900-1937 / James S. Pula ; North Carolina women on strike / Roxanne Newton ; The Catholic Church and strikes / Dan La Botz ; Strikes led by the Trade Union Unity League, 1929-1934 / Victor G. Devinatz
- Part II. Strikes and working class culture: Introduction / by Benjamin Day ; Dressed for defiance: the clothing of female strikers, 1910-1935 / Deirdre Clemente ; Better than a hundred speeches: the strike song / Timothy P. Lynch ; Civil rights strikes / Todd Michney ; World War II hate strikes / James Wolfinger ; Polish workers and strikes, 1900-1937 / James S. Pula ; North Carolina women on strike / Roxanne Newton ; The Catholic Church and strikes / Dan La Botz ; Strikes led by the Trade Union Unity League, 1929-1934 / Victor G. Devinatz
- Part III. Strike waves: Introduction / by Aaron Brenner ; The strike wave of 1877 / John P. Lloyd ; World War I era strikes / Cecelia Bucki ; The rise and fall of the sit-down strike / Rachel Meyer ; The 1945-1946 strike wave / Jack Metzgar ; Strikes in the United States since World War II / Nicola Pizzolato
- Part IV. Public sector strikes: Introduction / by Immanuel Ness ; Labor and the Boston police strike of 1919 / Joseph Slater ; Teachers' strikes / John P. Lloyd ; Postal workers' strikes / Aaron Brenner ; Three strikes against the New York City transit system / Michael Hirsch ; Social workers and strikes / Howard Karger.
- Part V. Strikes in the private sector: Introduction / by Immanuel Ness ; Manufacturing, mining, and agricultural strikes: Introduction / by Immanuel Ness ; Strikes and apprenticeship in the United States / Daniel Jacoby ; Strikes in the nineteenth-century cotton textile industry in the Northeast United States / Mary H. Blewett ; Twentieth-century textile strikes / David J. Goldberg ; Garment worker strikes / Paul Le Blanc ; Steel strikes before 1935 / John Hinshaw ; Steel on strike: from 1936 to the present / Robert Bruno ; Unionizing the "jungle": a century of meatpacking strikes / Jackie S. Gabriel ; Automobile workers' strikes / Ian Collin Greer ; Rubber workers' strikes / John L. Woods ; Plumbing strikes / Kim Phillips-Fein ; Agricultural strikes / Dan La Botz ; Labor and the transformation of the Hawaiian sugar industry / Edward D. Beechert ; The Redwoods Lumber and Sawmill Workers' strike / Calvin Winslow ; The Watsonville Cannery strike, 1985-1987 / Myrna Cherkoss Donahoe ; Coal miners on strike and the formation of a national union / Jon Amsden and Stephen Brier ; Mesabi Iron Miners' strikes / Gerald Ronning ; The rise and fall of rank-and-file miner militancy, 1964-2007 / Paul J. Nyden
- Infrastructure industry strikes: Introduction / by Benjamin Day ; Labor upheaval on the nation's railroads, 1877-1922 / Theresa Ann Case ; Strikes by telegraph workers / Anthony J. Silva ; Telegraph messenger strikes and their impact on telegraph unionization / Greg Downey ; Trolley wars / Scott Molloy ; Seafarers' strikes in American history / Nathan Lillie ; Longshoremen's strikes, 1900-1920 / Calvin Winslow ; Strikes on the port of New York 1945-1960 / William Mello ; Strikes in the U.S. airline industry, 1919-2004 / David J. Walsh ; Aerospace engineer strikes / Stan Sorscher ; Teamster strikes and organizing, 1934-1964
- Service industry strikes: Introduction / by Benjamin Day ; Newsboy strikes / Jon Bekken ; Retail workers' strikes / Daniel J. Opler ; Waitress strikes / Dorothy Sue Cobble ; Office workers' strikes / Vernon Mogensen ; Strikes in the motion picture industry / Andrew Dawson ; Attorney strikes at the Legal Aid Society of New York City / Michael Z. Letwin ; Musician strikes / Damone Richardson ; Striking the ivory tower: student employee strikes at private universities / Mandi Isaacs Jackson ; The Boston University strike of 1979 / Gary Zabel ; Strikes by professional athletes / Michael Schiavone ; Nurses on strike / Lisa Hayes ; Organizing home health care workers in New York City / Immanuel Ness.