Labor's time [[electronic resource] ] : shorter hours, the UAW, and the struggle for the American unionism / / Jonathan Cutler

• Autore: Cutler Jonathan
• Pubblicazione: Philadelphia, : Temple University Press, 2004
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (252 p.)
• Disciplina: 331.25/7
• Soggetto topico: Hours of labor - United States; Labor unions - United States; Automobile industry workers - Labor unions - United States; Workweek - United States
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Thirty Hours' Work for Forty Hours' Pay; 2. The Most Dangerous Man in Detroit; 3. The Collapse of Communism; 4. Future Perfect; 5. False Promises; 6. Retreat and Defeat; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: The movement for a shorter workweek that once defined the labor movement in the United States was largely displaced by the new corporatist structure of organized labor in the post-New Deal era. Labor's Time examines the changes that occurred within organized labor and traces their influence on the decline of the shorter hours movement. Focusing on the internal union politics of the influential United Automobile Workers and Local 600, its chapter at Henry Ford's massive River Rouge factory, Jonathan Cutler demonstrates how an all-but-forgotten interracial movement for a shorter work
• Titolo autorizzato: Labor's time
• ISBN: 1-282-73244-7; 9786612732447; 1-59213-785-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910782028203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Labor in crisis.