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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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Wolfinger, James (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2016.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table des matières:
  • 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.