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Working hard for the American dream : workers and their unions, World War I to the present / / Randi Storch
Working hard for the American dream : workers and their unions, World War I to the present / / Randi Storch
Autore Storch Randi
Edizione [1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa Chichester, West Sussex, : Wiley-Blackwell, c2013
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (x, 291 p.). : ill., photographs
Disciplina 331.880973
Collana American History Series
Soggetto topico Labor unions - United States - History
Working class - United States - History
Labor movement - United States - History
Labor - United States - History
Sindicats
Moviment obrer
Història social
Soggetto genere / forma Llibres electrònics
ISBN 9781118541579
111854157X
9781394260829
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Intro -- The American History Series -- Title page -- Copyright page -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Back to the Future -- 1: "Everyone Was Ready For Unionism": The Precursors, Promises, and Pitfalls of Industrial Unions in the 1930s -- Political Prelude: Industrial Democracy Betrayed, from Wilson to Hoover -- Corporate Prelude: The Unintended Consequences of 1920s Corporate Policies -- Working-Class Prelude: Activism -- A New Deal for Workers: A Failed and Flawed Start -- Fighting for Unionism in the 1930s Without Meaningful Federal Protection -- The Wagner Act and Industrial Unionism -- Corporate Resistance and Workers' Unity -- Extending the New Deal for Workers -- Assessing Workers' New Deal and Industrial Unionism -- Conclusion -- 2: Big Wars, Big Labor, Big Costs -- Wartime Mobilization, 1939-1941 -- Government Intervention: War Industries and Labor Policies, 1941-1945 -- Wartime Demographic Developments -- Crisis in Industrial Relations, 1945-1946 -- Postwar Politics and Taft-Hartley, 1946-1948 -- Political (Mis)calculations: Operation Dixie, CIO Purges, and International Alliances, 1946-1950s -- Big Labor, Big Costs, 1955-1960s -- Conclusion -- 3: Civil Rights Versus Labor Rights, 1960s-1970s -- Expanding Public and Service Sectors -- Public Sector Workers and Union Rights -- New Laws and Workplace Challenges -- Women and Workplace Rights -- The Push and Pull of Changing Times: New Unionists, Rank-and-File Movements, AFL-CIO Leaders, and Nixon -- Unionists Divided and Under Siege -- Conclusion -- 4: Working More for Less and Other Troubles for Workers in the Late Twentieth Century -- Profit Making in a Global World -- The Human Price of Modern Capitalism -- The Political Shaping of the Economy -- The AFL-CIO Leadership's Resistance to Change -- Innovation and Possibilities -- Change from the Bottom-Up.
Conclusion -- Epilogue: The Illusive American Dream: A Personal Journey -- Bibliographical Essay -- General Labor and Working-Class Histories -- Chapter 1: "Everyone Was Ready for Unionism": The Precursors, Promises, and Pitfalls of Industrial Unions in the 1930s -- Chapter 2: Big Wars, Big Labor, Big Costs -- Chapter 3: Civil Rights versus Labor Rights, 1960s-1970s -- Chapter 4: Working More for Less and Other Troubles for Workers in the Late Twentieth Century -- Index.
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Storch Randi  
Chichester, West Sussex, : Wiley-Blackwell, c2013
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Working USA
Working USA
Pubbl/distr/stampa Armonk, NY : , : M.E. Sharpe
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource
Disciplina 331/.0973/05
Soggetto topico Working class - United States
Labor unions - United States
Labor - United States
Labor
Labor unions
Working class
Sindicats
Treball
Treballadors
Soggetto genere / forma Periodicals.
Revistes electròniques.
ISSN 1743-4580
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Periodico
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Altri titoli varianti Working United States of America
WorkingUSA
Journal of labor and society
Record Nr. UNINA-9910134586903321
Armonk, NY : , : M.E. Sharpe
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Working-Class Organization and the Return to Democracy in Spain / / Robert M. Fishman
Working-Class Organization and the Return to Democracy in Spain / / Robert M. Fishman
Autore Fishman Robert M.
Edizione [1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa Ithaca, NY : , : Cornell University Press, , [2019]
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (352 p.) : 58 tables
Disciplina 322/.2/094609048
Soggetto topico Labor unions - Political activity - Spain - History - 20th century
Representative government and representation - Spain - History - 20th century
Working class - Spain - History - 20th century
Political Science & Political History
Spain
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Labor & Industrial Relations
Sindicats
Proletariat
Política
Govern
Participació política
Soggetto genere / forma Llibres electrònics
ISBN 9781501745775
1501745778
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Workplace Leaders and Union Organization -- 3. Who Are the Workplace Leaders? -- 4. The Opposition Labor Movement in Franco Spain -- 5. Labor and Political Transition -- 6. The Difficulty of Union-Building -- 7. Conflict or Accommodation -- 8. Conclusion -- Afterword -- Methodological Appendix -- Bibliography -- Index
Record Nr. UNINA-9911026155103321
Fishman Robert M.  
Ithaca, NY : , : Cornell University Press, , [2019]
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