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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| 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 |
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| Ithaca, NY : , : Cornell University Press, , [2019] | ||
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