History of American LaborSimon and Schuster, 30. juni 2008 - 504 sider Joseph Rayback’s updated and comprehensive history of the American labor movement. Considered to be a foundational text for any readers interested in learning the important role of American labor union history, The History of American Labor delves into the history of labor in America from the colonial days until the mid-1950's. |
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... began to hire labor on a large scale both to help with the catch and to dry and salt the ocean product for export . Whaling went through the same development even more rapidly . Commerce progressed through similar stages . The first ...
... began to hire labor on a large scale both to help with the catch and to dry and salt the ocean product for export . Whaling went through the same development even more rapidly . Commerce progressed through similar stages . The first ...
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... began to set up manufacturing establishments which provided jobs for the unemployed and for children whose parents were unable to maintain them . Both the workhouse and the public manufactory upheld the principle that labor was required ...
... began to set up manufacturing establishments which provided jobs for the unemployed and for children whose parents were unable to maintain them . Both the workhouse and the public manufactory upheld the principle that labor was required ...
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... began in Boston . Early in May a town meeting , dominated by the Caucus , appealed to the colonies to impose a complete boycott on trade with Britain till the blockade of Boston was lifted . Simultaneously the local Committee of ...
... began in Boston . Early in May a town meeting , dominated by the Caucus , appealed to the colonies to impose a complete boycott on trade with Britain till the blockade of Boston was lifted . Simultaneously the local Committee of ...
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... began military drill . Philadelphia and Charleston workingmen engaged in the same activity , carrying out the necessary task of mobilizing for war in the months before the colonies of Penn- sylvania and South Carolina could officially ...
... began military drill . Philadelphia and Charleston workingmen engaged in the same activity , carrying out the necessary task of mobilizing for war in the months before the colonies of Penn- sylvania and South Carolina could officially ...
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... began setting the prices of numerous commodities . It soon became evident that such efforts were insufficient : the de- preciating continental and state currencies made it almost impossible to maintain prices on a stable level . Early ...
... began setting the prices of numerous commodities . It soon became evident that such efforts were insufficient : the de- preciating continental and state currencies made it almost impossible to maintain prices on a stable level . Early ...
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The First Trade Unions and Labor Parties | 54 |
The Jackson PeriodLocofocoism | 75 |
The Labor Radicals | 226 |
The Federations Revival | 250 |
Progressive Labor Legislation | 260 |
TradeUnion Success | 273 |
The Attack on the Radicals | 280 |
A Decade of Decline | 290 |
The Impact of the Great Depression | 313 |
Labors New Deal | 320 |
The TenHour Day and Social Reform | 92 |
Pure and Simple UnionismSteps Toward Nationalization | 103 |
The Depression of 1873 | 129 |
The Knights of Labor and Their RivalsHaymarket | 142 |
The End of an Era | 168 |
The Modern | 185 |
The Triumph of the Machine | 187 |
The A F L s First DecadeHomestead and Pullman | 194 |
Advance and Regression | 207 |
The Rise of the C I O | 346 |
Political Action and Jurisdictional Warfare | 356 |
Labor and the Second World War | 373 |
The Truman Administration | 387 |
The Eisenhower Years | 413 |
Since 1960 | 443 |
Bibliography | 463 |
Index | 479 |
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Side 211 - The rights and interests of the laboring man will be protected and cared for— not by the labor agitators, but by the Christian men to whom God in His infinite wisdom has given the control of the property interests of the country, and upon the successful Management of which so much depends.
Side 319 - ... full freedom of association, self-organization, and designation of representatives of his own choosing, to negotiate the terms and conditions of his employment, and that he shall be free from the interference, restraint, or coercion of employers of labor, or their agents, In the designation of such representatives or in self-organization or in other concerted activities for the purpose of collective bargaining or other mutual aid or protection...
Side 368 - It ill behooves one who has supped at labor's table and who has been sheltered in labor's house to curse with equal fervor and fine impartiality both labor and its adversaries when they become locked in deadly embrace.
Side 56 - A combination of workmen to raise their wages may be considered in a twofold point of view : one is ,to benefit themselves, the other is to injure those who do not join their society. The rule of law condemns both.
Side 197 - The collective ownership by the people of all means of production and distribution.
Side 211 - I do not know who you are. I see that you are a religious man; but you are evidently biased in favor of the right of the working man to control a business in which he has no other interest than to secure fair wages for the work he does.