Labor Leaders In America

Author : Melvyn Dubofsky
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252013430
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Labor Leaders in America written by Melvyn Dubofsky and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here are the life stories of the men and women who have led the labor movement in America from Reconstruction to recent times, from William H. Sylvis, the first major labor leader, to Cesar Chavez, who organized California's farm workers in the 1960s. All of the chapters have been written expressly for this volume by leading authorities, several of whom are authors of booklength biographies of their subjects. Taken together these readable yet authoritative life studies provide a broad overview of the American labor movement that will appeal to the student and lay reader as well as to the specialist in social history and labor and industrial relations.

Author : Max Green
Publisher : American Enterprise Institute
ISBN 13 : 9780844739960
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Epitaph for American Labor written by Max Green and published by American Enterprise Institute. This book was released on 1996 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No institution in America has changed more in the past 25 years, observes Max Green, than the American labour movements. Green documents the descent into radicalism of these unions and concludes that as currently constituted and led, they no longer serve the public or national interest.

Author : Melvyn Dubofsky
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118976878
Total Pages : 525 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Labor in America written by Melvyn Dubofsky and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2017-03-08 with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, designed to give a survey history of American labor from colonial times to the present, is uniquely well suited to speak to the concerns of today’s teachers and students. As issues of growing inequality, stagnating incomes, declining unionization, and exacerbated job insecurity have increasingly come to define working life over the last 20 years, a new generation of students and teachers is beginning to seek to understand labor and its place and ponder seriously its future in American life. Like its predecessors, this ninth edition of our classic survey of American labor is designed to introduce readers to the subject in an engaging, accessible way.

Author : Robert H. Zieger
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801870781
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.8X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Workers, American Unions written by Robert H. Zieger and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gary M. Fink
Publisher : Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 582 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Biographical Dictionary of American Labor Leaders written by Gary M. Fink and published by Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press. This book was released on 1974 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biographys, trade union officers, leadership of labour movement and trade unions, USA - tables giving educational level, union affiliation, preferences regarding political party and religion.

Author : Melvyn Dubofsky
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118817621
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Labor in America written by Melvyn Dubofsky and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-08-26 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even since the last edition of this milestone text was released six years ago, unions have continued to shed members; union membership in the private sector of the economy has fallen to levels not seen since the nineteenth century; the forces of economic liberalization (neo-liberalism), capital mobility, and globalization have affected measurably the material standard of living enjoyed by workers in the United States; and mass immigration from the Southern Hemisphere and Asia has continued to restructure the domestic labor force. Yet even in the face of anti-union legislation, a continuing decline in the number of organized workers, and the fear of stateless, if not faceless terrorism—the shadow of “911” in which we still live, in preparing this new edition of his classic text Professor Dubofsky has hewn to the lines laid out in the previous seven in seeking to encourage today’s students of labor history to learn about those who built the United States and who will shape its future. In addition to taking the narrative right up to the present, a recent history that includes the election of 2008 as well as the tumultuous blow suffered by the U.S. and world economy in 2008-09, this eighth edition features an entirely new (fourth) bank of photographs and, in light of the avalanche of new scholarly work over the last decade, a complete overhauling of the book’s extensive and critical Further Readings section in order to note the very best works from the profuse recent scholarship that explores the history of working people in all its diversity.

Author : Charles Allan Madison
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 526 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Labor Leaders written by Charles Allan Madison and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Charles Wright Mills
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252069482
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.8X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New Men of Power written by Charles Wright Mills and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When C. Wright Mills published The New Men of Power in 1948, he thought labor leaders a new strategic elite and the unions a set of vanguard organizations that were crucial to "stopping the main drift towards war and slump." Today, as the unions once again seek to play a decisive role in American life, Mills' remarkable probe into the structure and ideology of mid-twentieth-century trade unionism remains essential reading. A new introduction by historian Nelson Lichtenstein offers insight into the Millsian political world at the time he wrote The New Men of Power.

Author : Joseph G. Rayback
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 143911899X
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History of American Labor written by Joseph G. Rayback and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-06-30 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joseph Rayback’s history of the American labor movement. A compact and comprehensive chronicle of where labor has been and where it is today.

Author : G. William Domhoff
Publisher : Touchstone
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Who Rules America Now? written by G. William Domhoff and published by Touchstone. This book was released on 1986 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author is convinced that there is a ruling class in America today. He examines the American power structure as it has developed in the 1980s. He presents systematic, empirical evidence that a fixed group of privileged people dominates the American economy and government. The book demonstrates that an upper class comprising only one-half of one percent of the population occupies key positions within the corporate community. It shows how leaders within this "power elite" reach government and dominate it through processes of special-interest lobbying, policy planning and candidate selection. It is written not to promote any political ideology, but to analyze our society with accuracy.