Running the Rails : Capital and Labor in the Philadelphia Transit Industry /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wolfinger, James (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2016.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Local transit.
Industrial relations.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
Relations industrielles > Pennsylvanie > Philadelphie > Histoire.
Transports publics > Pennsylvanie > Philadelphie > Histoire.
Industrial relations > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > History.
Local transit > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > History.
Pennsylvania > Philadelphia.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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