The fall of the house of labor : the workplace, the state, and American labor activism, 1865-1925 /
This book studies the changing ways in which American industrial workers mobilised concerted action in their own interests between the abolition of slavery and the end of open immigration from Europe and Asia. Sustained class conflict between 1916 and 1922 reshaped governmental and business policies...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Paris :
Cambridge University Press ; Editions de la Maison des Sciences de l'Homme,
1987.
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| Summary: | This book studies the changing ways in which American industrial workers mobilised concerted action in their own interests between the abolition of slavery and the end of open immigration from Europe and Asia. Sustained class conflict between 1916 and 1922 reshaped governmental and business policies, but left labour largely unorganised and in retreat. The House of Labor, so arduously erected by working-class activists during the preceeding generation, did not collapse, but ossified, so that when labour activism was reinvigorated after 1933, the movement split in two. These developments are analysed here in ways which stress the links between migration, neighbourhood life, racial subjugation, business reform, the state, and the daily experience of work itself. |
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| Physical Description: | xii, 494 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references at chapter ends, and index. |
| ISBN: | 0521225795 9780521225793 2735102106 9782735102105 0521379822 9780521379823 2735102904 9782735102907 |