American Rubber Workers & Organized Labor, 1900-1941
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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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
2014.
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Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Résumé: | 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. |
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Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (352 pages). |
ISBN: | 9781400859450 |