Little Steel

Author : Ahmed White
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520285611
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Last Great Strike written by Ahmed White and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2016-01-04 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In May 1937, seventy thousand workers walked off their jobs at four large steel companies known collectively as “Little Steel.” The strikers sought to make the companies retreat from decades of antiunion repression, abide by the newly enacted federal labor law, and recognize their union. For two months a grinding struggle unfolded, punctuated by bloody clashes in which police, company agents, and National Guardsmen ruthlessly beat and shot unionists. At least sixteen died and hundreds more were injured before the strike ended in failure. The violence and brutality of the Little Steel Strike became legendary. In many ways it was the last great strike in modern America. Traditionally the Little Steel Strike has been understood as a modest setback for steel workers, one that actually confirmed the potency of New Deal reforms and did little to impede the progress of the labor movement. However, The Last Great Strike tells a different story about the conflict and its significance for unions and labor rights. More than any other strike, it laid bare the contradictions of the industrial labor movement, the resilience of corporate power, and the limits of New Deal liberalism at a crucial time in American history.

Author : Ahmed White
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520961013
Total Pages : 411 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Last Great Strike written by Ahmed White and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2016-01-04 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In May 1937, seventy thousand workers walked off their jobs at four large steel companies known collectively as “Little Steel.” The strikers sought to make the companies retreat from decades of antiunion repression, abide by the newly enacted federal labor law, and recognize their union. For two months a grinding struggle unfolded, punctuated by bloody clashes in which police, company agents, and National Guardsmen ruthlessly beat and shot unionists. At least sixteen died and hundreds more were injured before the strike ended in failure. The violence and brutality of the Little Steel Strike became legendary. In many ways it was the last great strike in modern America. Traditionally the Little Steel Strike has been understood as a modest setback for steel workers, one that actually confirmed the potency of New Deal reforms and did little to impede the progress of the labor movement. However, The Last Great Strike tells a different story about the conflict and its significance for unions and labor rights. More than any other strike, it laid bare the contradictions of the industrial labor movement, the resilience of corporate power, and the limits of New Deal liberalism at a crucial time in American history.

Author : United States. National War Labor Board (1942-1945)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1140 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Termination Report of the National War Labor Board: Appendixes to vol. 1, pt. II written by United States. National War Labor Board (1942-1945) and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 1140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. National War Labor Board (1942-1945)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1138 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Termination Report of the National War Labor Board written by United States. National War Labor Board (1942-1945) and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 1138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. National War Labor Board (1942-1945)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1140 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Termination Report of the National War Labor Board: Appendixes to vol. I, pt. II written by United States. National War Labor Board (1942-1945) and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 1140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert H. Zieger
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 080786644X
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The CIO, 1935-1955 written by Robert H. Zieger and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2000-11-09 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) encompassed the largest sustained surge of worker organization in American history. Robert Zieger charts the rise of this industrial union movement, from the founding of the CIO by John L. Lewis in 1935 to its merger under Walter Reuther with the American Federation of Labor in 1955. Exploring themes of race and gender, Zieger combines the institutional history of the CIO with vivid depictions of working-class life in this critical period. Zieger details the ideological conflicts that racked the CIO even as its leaders strove to establish a labor presence at the heart of the U.S. economic system. Stressing the efforts of industrial unionists such as Sidney Hillman and Philip Murray to forge potent instruments of political action, he assesses the CIO's vital role in shaping the postwar political and international order. Zieger's analysis also contributes to current debates over labor law reform, the collective bargaining system, and the role of organized labor in a changing economy.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Labor-management Relations written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Eddie Little
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 9780312303204
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Steel Toes written by Eddie Little and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2002-11-09 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eddie Little, author of the hit Another Day in Paradise and who The New York Times describes as "Reminiscent of Hunter Thompson and William Burroughs," is back with a new gripping crime novel. Little writes about the world he used to inhabit, a place filled with drugs, crime and danger at every turn. His electrifying prose brings to life the rough, raw, and seedy life of Boston's underworld where corruption lies at the heart of every deception. Bobbie is a young criminal prodigy. Living in Boston he's approached by a mysterious Greek on behalf of an anonymous shipping tycoon, who wants to commission a theft. The Fogg museum is the target; a collection of ancient Greek coins the score. Everything goes fine with the burglary, but with easy street just around the corner Bobbie's life takes an unexpected twist and his big score evaporates. With his life on the line, Bobbie must learn who he can trust when trusting anyone can make you lose everything. Steel Toes is as close to reality as fiction can get. Little draws you in with his knife sharp writing, his authentic and unflinching characters and plot as tight and strong as the hold of addiction.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1244 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Taft-Hartley Act Revisions written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 1244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Eliese Colette Goldbach
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1250239397
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rust written by Eliese Colette Goldbach and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Elements of Tara Westover’s Educated... The mill comes to represent something holy to [Eliese] because it is made not of steel but of people." —New York Times Book Review One woman's story of working in the backbreaking steel industry to rebuild her life—but what she uncovers in the mill is much more than molten metal and grueling working conditions. Under the mill's orange flame she finds hope for the unity of America. Steel is the only thing that shines in the belly of the mill... To ArcelorMittal Steel Eliese is known as #6691: Utility Worker, but this was never her dream. Fresh out of college, eager to leave behind her conservative hometown and come to terms with her Christian roots, Eliese found herself applying for a job at the local steel mill. The mill is everything she was trying to escape, but it's also her only shot at financial security in an economically devastated and forgotten part of America. In Rust, Eliese brings the reader inside the belly of the mill and the middle American upbringing that brought her there in the first place. She takes a long and intimate look at her Rust Belt childhood and struggles to reconcile her desire to leave without turning her back on the people she's come to love. The people she sees as the unsung backbone of our nation. Faced with the financial promise of a steelworker’s paycheck, and the very real danger of working in an environment where a steel coil could crush you at any moment or a vat of molten iron could explode because of a single drop of water, Eliese finds unexpected warmth and camaraderie among the gruff men she labors beside each day. Appealing to readers of Hillbilly Elegy and Educated, Rust is a story of the humanity Eliese discovers in the most unlikely and hellish of places, and the hope that therefore begins to grow.