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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Side 23
... vote in colony elections was granted only to persons who owned specified amounts and types of income - producing ... voting rights to freemen : those who were given the " freedom of the city . " This freedom COLONIAL POLITICS : LABOR'S ...
... vote in colony elections was granted only to persons who owned specified amounts and types of income - producing ... voting rights to freemen : those who were given the " freedom of the city . " This freedom COLONIAL POLITICS : LABOR'S ...
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... voting privileges in Williamsburg and Norfolk , Virginia . But if labor did have a share in town voting , its influence upon ... vote in county and colony elections ; it complained because cities were under - represented in the colonial ...
... voting privileges in Williamsburg and Norfolk , Virginia . But if labor did have a share in town voting , its influence upon ... vote in county and colony elections ; it complained because cities were under - represented in the colonial ...
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... vote , through the medium of mass demonstration . The second contest with Britain was precipitated by the Town- shend Act which levied a tax upon tea , lead , paint , glass , and paper imported into the colonies and was intended to ...
... vote , through the medium of mass demonstration . The second contest with Britain was precipitated by the Town- shend Act which levied a tax upon tea , lead , paint , glass , and paper imported into the colonies and was intended to ...
Side 30
... voting en bloc at elections . But elsewhere , even in Boston , the shop- keepers , mechanics , and laborers retired into everyday living . But these years of peace were also years of development . Beneath the placid surface of colonial ...
... voting en bloc at elections . But elsewhere , even in Boston , the shop- keepers , mechanics , and laborers retired into everyday living . But these years of peace were also years of development . Beneath the placid surface of colonial ...
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... vote on the question of severing ties with Britain . Thus , when the Congress finally declared the independence of the United Colonies , workingmen of the north- ern cities could claim a small share of the credit for the act . Because ...
... vote on the question of severing ties with Britain . Thus , when the Congress finally declared the independence of the United Colonies , workingmen of the north- ern cities could claim a small share of the credit for the act . Because ...
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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.