The Samuel Gompers Papers Vol 5

Author : Samuel Gompers
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252020087
Total Pages : 644 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Samuel Gompers Papers, Vol. 5 written by Samuel Gompers and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The years 1898-1902 were prosperous for the U.S., marked by economic growth and industrial expansion, a rising material standard of living, and low unemployment. The period was one of unprecedented growth for the American Federation of Labor (AFL), and it found Samuel Gompers continuing to advocate the organization of all workers and focusing his efforts on establishment of local and national trade unions, central labor bodies, and state federations, and on the affiliation of these organizations with the AFL. From reviews of earlier volumes "This collection belongs on the shelf of anyone teaching American labor history, but it also should prove useful to scholars with related interests." -- James Grossman, Illinois Historical Journal "Distinguished and invaluable. . . . Labor historians would be well advised to clear shelf space for it." -- Bruce Laurie, Industrial and Labor Relations Review

Author : Samuel Gompers
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252025648
Total Pages : 630 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Samuel Gompers Papers written by Samuel Gompers and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With almost forty years' experience as a labor leader by 1909, Samuel Gompers had learned the value of practical achievements. Shorter hours, higher wages, safer and more sanitary workplaces, and a voice in establishing working conditions were the hallmarks of trade unionism in the Progressive Era, and these hard-won, incremental gains had significantly improved working-class lives. While these were not all he hoped to achieve, they represented, Gompers believed, essential victories in a bitter class struggle that was far from over. This installment of the multivolume documentary history of the nation's premier labor leader covers a period marked by industrial tragedies--such as the 1909 Cherry Hill mine disaster and the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist fire--and industrial violence, including the 1910 bombing of the Los Angeles Times building. These years were punctuated by hard-fought strikes and judicial proceedings directed against trade unionists, most notably the Danbury Hatters' and Buck's Stove cases and the prosecution of the McNamaras. For Gompers, these were demanding years that taxed his health and energy but ultimately strengthened his resolve as he became a crucial player in the AFL's efforts to establish collective bargaining as the basis of industrial democracy.

Author : Samuel Gompers
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252011375
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Samuel Gompers Papers written by Samuel Gompers and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Stanford M. Lyman
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
ISBN 13 : 9781610753500
Total Pages : 460 pages
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Download or read book Roads to Dystopia, Sociological Essay on the Post Modern Condition (c) written by Stanford M. Lyman and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Claire Goldstene
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1626741352
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Struggle for America's Promise written by Claire Goldstene and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2014-04-17 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Struggle for America’s Promise, Claire Goldstene seeks to untangle one of the enduring ideals in American history, that of economic opportunity. She explores the varied discourses about its meaning during the upheavals and corporate consolidations of the Gilded Age. Some proponents of equal opportunity seek to promote upward financial mobility by permitting more people to participate in the economic sphere thereby rewarding merit over inherited wealth. Others use opportunity as a mechanism to maintain economic inequality. This tension, embedded with the idea of equal opportunity itself and continually reaffirmed by immigrant populations, animated social dissent among urban workers while simultaneously serving efforts by business elites to counter such dissent. Goldstene uses a biographical approach to focus on key figures along a spectrum of political belief as they struggled to reconcile the inherent contradictions of equal opportunity. She considers the efforts of Booker T. Washington in a post–Civil War South to ground opportunity in landownership as an attempt to confront the intersection of race and class. She also explores the determination of the Knights of Labor to define opportunity in terms of controlling one’s own labor. She looks at the attempts by Samuel Gompers through the American Federation of Labor as well as by business elites through the National Association of Manufacturers and the National Civic Federation to shift the focus of opportunity to leisure and consumption. The Struggle for America’s Promise also includes such radical figures as Edward Bellamy and Emma Goldman, who were more willing to step beyond the boundaries of the discourse about opportunity and question economic competition itself.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on the Treasury, Postal Service, and General Government Appropriations
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Treasury, Postal Service, and General Government Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1998 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on the Treasury, Postal Service, and General Government Appropriations and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : International Brotherhood of Teamsters
Publisher : International Brotherhood of Teamsters
ISBN 13 : 2765918023
Total Pages : 100 pages
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Download or read book Daniel J. Tobin: A Teamster’s Life written by International Brotherhood of Teamsters and published by International Brotherhood of Teamsters. This book was released on 2015-09-28 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Irish immigrant, he, like so many others, came to the United States seeking economic opportunity lacking in his homeland. Instilled with a keen intellect and a passion for fairness, Tobin would rise from the workers’ ranks to lead the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) with a clearheaded, balanced approach that allowed the organization to thrive.

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Total Pages : 268 pages
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Author : George I. Lovell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139440616
Total Pages : 314 pages
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Download or read book Legislative Deferrals written by George I. Lovell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-03-31 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do unelected federal judges have so much power to make policy in the United States? Why were federal judges able to thwart apparent legislative victories won by labor organizations in the Lochner era? Most scholars who have addressed such questions assume that the answer lies in the judiciary's constitutionally guaranteed independence, and thus worry that insulated judges threaten democracy when they stray from baseline positions chosen by legislators. This book argues for a fundamental shift in the way scholars think about judicial policy-making. Scholars need to notice that legislators also empower judges to make policy as a means of escaping accountability. This study of legislative deference to the courts offers a dramatic reinterpretation of the history of twentieth-century labor law and shows how attention to legislative deferrals can help scholars to address vexing questions about the consequences of judicial power in a democracy.

Author : Grace Palladino
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501729306
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Skilled Hands, Strong Spirits written by Grace Palladino and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-05 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Skilled Hands, Strong Spirits follows the history of the Building and Construction Trades Department from the emergence of building trades councils in the age of the skyscraper; through treacherous fights over jurisdiction as new building materials and methods of work evolved; and through numerous Department campaigns to improve safety standards, work with contractors to promote unionized construction, and forge a sense of industrial unity among its fifteen (and at times nineteen) autonomous and highly diverse affiliates. Arranged chronologically, Skilled Hands, Strong Spirits is based on archival research in Department, AFL-CIO, and U.S. government records as well as numerous union journals, the local and national press, and interviews with former Department officers. Grace Palladino makes the history of the building trades come alive. By investigating the sources of conflict and unity within the Building and Construction Trades Department over time, and demonstrating how building trades unions dealt with problems and opportunities in the past, she provides a historical context for the current generation of workers and leaders as they devise new strategies to suit their current situation.