Running the Rails : Capital and Labor in the Philadelphia Transit Industry /
Philadelphia exploded in violence in 1910. The general strike that year was a notable point, but not a unique one, in a generations-long history of conflict between the workers and management at one of the nation's largest privately owned transit systems. In Running the Rails, James Wolfinger u...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
2016.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Capital and the shifting nature of social control
- Beginnings
- Working on the line
- Time of troubles
- The age of Thomas Mitten
- Hard times and a hate strike
- Labor relations and public relations
- National city lines and the imperatives of postwar capitalism
- Advances hard won and well-deserved.