American Rubber Workers & Organized Labor, 1900-1941

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In 1900 the manufacture of rubber products in the United States was concentrated in several hundred small plants around New York and Boston that employed low-paid immigrant workers with no intervention from unions. By the mid-1930s, thanks to the automobile and the Depression, production was concent...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Nelson, Daniel
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2014.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Rubber industry workers > Labor unions.
Labor unions > Organizing.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
HISTORY > United States > 20th Century.
Syndicalisation > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Caoutchouc > Industrie > Personnel > Syndicats > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Labor unions > Organizing > United States > History > 20th century.
Rubber industry workers > Labor unions > United States > History > 20th century.
United States.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:In 1900 the manufacture of rubber products in the United States was concentrated in several hundred small plants around New York and Boston that employed low-paid immigrant workers with no intervention from unions. By the mid-1930s, thanks to the automobile and the Depression, production was concentrated in Ohio, the labor force was largely native born and highly paid, and labor organizations had a decisive influence on the industry. Daniel Nelson tells the story of these changes as a case study of union growth against a background of critical developments in twentieth-century economic life.
Physical Description:1 online resource (352 pages).
ISBN:9781400859450

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