The Pullman Strike And The Labor Movement In American History

Author : R. Conrad Stein
Publisher : Enslow Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Pullman Strike and the Labor Movement in American History written by R. Conrad Stein and published by Enslow Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Details how a labor dispute in Chicago during 1894 progressed into a strike which held up train service in twenty-seven states.

Author : Linda Jacobs Altman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781562943462
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Pullman Strike of 1894 written by Linda Jacobs Altman and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the people and events involved in the unsuccessful but influential strike by railroad workers at the Pullman Company in Chicago in 1894.

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 : Richard Schneirov
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252067556
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.5X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Pullman Strike and the Crisis of the 1890s written by Richard Schneirov and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pullman strike of 1894 shut down the rail system from Chicago to the West Coast, culminating two decades of labor unrest and helping to define an epochal transition in American history. In this wide-ranging collection, leading labor historians use the prism of the Pullman strike to broaden our understanding of the crisis of the 1890s. By examining the strike in the context of continuities and changes in labor organization, the influences of gender and community, the public representation and contested meaning of labor conflict, the emergence of a new politics of progressive reform, the development of a regulatory state, and a changing legal environment, these essays resituate the Pullman conflict in its historical context. Illuminating one of the most important events in labor's past, The Pullman Strike and the Crisis of the 1890s testifies to the pivotal importance of the Pullman conflict and its aftermath for understanding the course of American history.

Author : Michael Burgan
Publisher : Capstone
ISBN 13 : 9780756533489
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Pullman Strike of 1894 written by Michael Burgan and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2007-09 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the violent Pullman strike of 1894 which closed railroads across the midwestern United States and which made the nation's leaders see the need for addressing the concerns of the country's workers.

Author : Mary Ritter Beard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Short History of the American Labor Movement written by Mary Ritter Beard and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Philip Sheldon Foner
Publisher : INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHERS CO
ISBN 13 : 9780717806522
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History of the Labor Movement in the United States written by Philip Sheldon Foner and published by INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHERS CO. This book was released on 1988 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Labor and the Red Scare; Seattle and Winnipeg general strikes; Boston telephone and police strikes; Streetcar strikes in Chicago, Denver, Knoxville, Kansas City; strikes in clothing, textile, coal and steel; The open-shop drive; Strikes and Black-white relationships; the AFL and the Black worker; the IWW; Communist Party founded; Political action 1918-1920.

Author : Louise W. Knight
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226447014
Total Pages : 598 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Citizen written by Louise W. Knight and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-09-15 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jane Addams was the first American woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. Now Citizen, Louise W. Knight's masterful biography, reveals Addams's early development as a political activist and social philosopher. In this book we observe a powerful mind grappling with the radical ideas of her age, most notably the ever-changing meanings of democracy. Citizen covers the first half of Addams's life, from 1860 to 1899. Knight recounts how Addams, a child of a wealthy family in rural northern Illinois, longed for a life of larger purpose. She broadened her horizons through education, reading, and travel, and, after receiving an inheritance upon her father's death, moved to Chicago in 1889 to co-found Hull House, the city's first settlement house. Citizen shows vividly what the settlement house actually was—a neighborhood center for education and social gatherings—and describes how Addams learned of the abject working conditions in American factories, the unchecked power wielded by employers, the impact of corrupt local politics on city services, and the intolerable limits placed on women by their lack of voting rights. These experiences, Knight makes clear, transformed Addams. Always a believer in democracy as an abstraction, Addams came to understand that this national ideal was also a life philosophy and a mandate for civic activism by all. As her story unfolds, Knight astutely captures the enigmatic Addams's compassionate personality as well as her flawed human side. Written in a strong narrative voice, Citizen is an insightful portrait of the formative years of a great American leader. “Knight’s decision to focus on Addams’s early years is a stroke of genius. We know a great deal about Jane Addams the public figure. We know relatively little about how she made the transition from the 19th century to the 20th. In Knight’s book, Jane Addams comes to life. . . . Citizen is written neither to make money nor to gain academic tenure; it is a gift, meant to enlighten and improve. Jane Addams would have understood.”—Alan Wolfe, New York Times Book Review “My only complaint about the book is that there wasn’t more of it. . . . Knight honors Addams as an American original.”—Kathleen Dalton, Chicago Tribune

Author : Philip Sheldon Foner
Publisher : International Publishers Co
ISBN 13 : 9780717803880
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History of the Labor Movement in the United States written by Philip Sheldon Foner and published by International Publishers Co. This book was released on 1975 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the history of labor unions and the labor movement from America's colonial era, through the Industrial Revolution, to the present

Author : JOSEPH G. RAYBACK
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of American Labor written by JOSEPH G. RAYBACK and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: