Working Hard for the American Dream Workers and Their Unions, World War I to the Present.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Storch, Randi
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newark : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2013.
Colección:New York Academy of Sciences Ser.
Temas:
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • The American History Series
  • Title page
  • Copyright page
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Back to the Future
  • 1: "Everyone Was Ready For Unionism": The Precursors, Promises, and Pitfalls of Industrial Unions in the 1930s
  • Political Prelude: Industrial Democracy Betrayed, from Wilson to Hoover
  • Corporate Prelude: The Unintended Consequences of 1920s Corporate Policies
  • Working-Class Prelude: Activism
  • A New Deal for Workers: A Failed and Flawed Start
  • Fighting for Unionism in the 1930s Without Meaningful Federal Protection
  • The Wagner Act and Industrial Unionism
  • Corporate Resistance and Workers' Unity
  • Extending the New Deal for Workers
  • Assessing Workers' New Deal and Industrial Unionism
  • Conclusion
  • 2: Big Wars, Big Labor, Big Costs
  • Wartime Mobilization, 1939-1941
  • Government Intervention: War Industries and Labor Policies, 1941-1945
  • Wartime Demographic Developments
  • Crisis in Industrial Relations, 1945-1946
  • Postwar Politics and Taft-Hartley, 1946-1948
  • Political (Mis)calculations: Operation Dixie, CIO Purges, and International Alliances, 1946-1950s
  • Big Labor, Big Costs, 1955-1960s
  • Conclusion
  • 3: Civil Rights Versus Labor Rights, 1960s-1970s
  • Expanding Public and Service Sectors
  • Public Sector Workers and Union Rights
  • New Laws and Workplace Challenges
  • Women and Workplace Rights
  • The Push and Pull of Changing Times: New Unionists, Rank-and-File Movements, AFL-CIO Leaders, and Nixon
  • Unionists Divided and Under Siege
  • Conclusion
  • 4: Working More for Less and Other Troubles for Workers in the Late Twentieth Century
  • Profit Making in a Global World
  • The Human Price of Modern Capitalism
  • The Political Shaping of the Economy
  • The AFL-CIO Leadership's Resistance to Change
  • Innovation and Possibilities
  • Change from the Bottom-Up
  • Conclusion
  • Epilogue: The Illusive American Dream: A Personal Journey
  • Bibliographical Essay
  • General Labor and Working-Class Histories
  • Chapter 1: "Everyone Was Ready for Unionism": The Precursors, Promises, and Pitfalls of Industrial Unions in the 1930s
  • Chapter 2: Big Wars, Big Labor, Big Costs
  • Chapter 3: Civil Rights versus Labor Rights, 1960s-1970s
  • Chapter 4: Working More for Less and Other Troubles for Workers in the Late Twentieth Century
  • Index

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