Workingmens Democracy

Author : Leon Fink
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252054466
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Workingmen's Democracy written by Leon Fink and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2022-10-17 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the operation and influence of the Knights of Labor—the leading labor organization of the nineteenth century—Workingmen's Democracy explores the dreams, achievements, and failures of a movement that sought to renew the democratic potential of American institutions. Runner-up in both the John H. Dunning Prize and Albert J. Beveridge Award competitions

Author : Joan S. M. Meyers
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501763695
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Working Democracies written by Joan S. M. Meyers and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2022-06-15 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this inside look at worker cooperatives, Joan Meyers challenges long-held views and beliefs. From the outside, worker cooperatives all seem to offer alternatives to bad jobs and unequal treatment by giving workers democratic control and equitable ownership of their workplaces. Some contend, however, that such egalitarianism and self-management come at the cost of efficiency and stability, and are impractical in the long run. Working Democracies focuses on two worker cooperatives in business since the 1970s that transformed from small countercultural collectives into thriving multiracial and largely working-class firms. She shows how democratic worker ownership can provide stability and effective business management, but also shows that broad equality is not an inevitable outcome despite the best intentions of cooperative members. Working Democracies explores the interconnections between organizational structure and organizational culture under conditions of worker control, revealing not only the different effects of managerialism and "participatory bureaucracy," but also how each bureaucratic variation is facilitated by how workers are defined by at each cooperative. Both bureaucratic variation and worker meanings are, she shows, are consequential for the reduction or reproduction of class, gender, and ethnoracial inequalities. Offering a behind the scenes comparative look at an often invisible type of workplace, Working Democracies serves as a guidebook for the future of worker cooperatives.

Author : Paul Buhle
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252012211
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Working for Democracy written by Paul Buhle and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by some of our nation's top historians, Working for Democracy is the first book to examine the politics of American workers from the revolution to the present in terms of broad struggles for power in society at large. In more than a dozen chapters, the topics range from the committees of artisan "republicans" at the time of the American Revolution to the League of Revolutionary Black Workers. Whether the subject is the anti-slavery movement, the New Deal coalition, the Wobblies, or women workers, Working For Democracy is a testament to the struggles of workers everywhere in America.

Author : Sean Wilentz
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195040128
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chants Democratic written by Sean Wilentz and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1986 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the working class, Sean Wilentz explores the dramatic social and intellectual changes that took place during the early industrialization of New York City.

Author : Michael Shirley
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814739660
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Congregation Town to Industrial City written by Michael Shirley and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1835, Winston and Salem was a well-ordered, bucolic, and attractive North Carolina town. A visitor could walk up Main Street from the village square and get a sense of the quiet Moravian community that had settled here. Yet, over the next half-century, this idyllic village was to experience dramatic changes. The Industrial Revolution calls forth images of great factories, mills, and machinery; yet, the character of the Industrial Revolution went beyond mere changes in modes of production. It meant the radical transformation of economic, social, and political institutions, and the emergence of a new mindset that brought about new ways of thinking and acting. Here is the illuminating story of Winston-Salem, a community of artisans and small farmers united, as members of a religious congregation, by a single vision of life. Transformed in just a few decades from an agricultural region into the home of the smokestacks and office towers of the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company and the Wachovia Bank and Trust Company, the Moravian community at Salem offers an illuminating illustration of the changes that swept Southern society in the nineteenth century and the concomitant development in these communities of a new ethos. Providing a rich wealth of information about the Winston-Salem community specifically, From Congregation Town to Industrial City also significantly broadens our understanding of how wholesale changes in the nineteenth century South redefined the meaning and experience of community. For, by the end of the century, community had gained an entirely new meaning, namely as a forum in which competing individuals pursued private opportunities and interests.

Author : William E. Forbath
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674037081
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Law and the Shaping of the American Labor Movement written by William E. Forbath and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why did American workers, unlike their European counterparts, fail to forge a class-based movement to pursue broad social reform? Was it simply that they lacked class consciousness and were more interested in personal mobility? In a richly detailed survey of labor law and labor history, William Forbath challenges this notion of American “individualism.” In fact, he argues, the nineteenth-century American labor movement was much like Europe’s labor movements in its social and political outlook, but in the decades around the turn of the century, the prevailing attitude of American trade unionists changed. Forbath shows that, over time, struggles with the courts and the legal order were crucial to reshaping labor’s outlook, driving the labor movement to temper its radical goals.

Author : Andrew Shankman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Crucible of American Democracy written by Andrew Shankman and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arguments over what democracy actually meant in practice and how it should be implemented raged throughout the early American republic. This exploration of the Pennsylvania experience reveals how democracy arose in America and how it came to accommodate capitalism.

Author : Walter Edward Hugins
Publisher : Stanford U.P
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jacksonian Democracy and the Working Class written by Walter Edward Hugins and published by Stanford U.P. This book was released on 1967 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Byron E. Shafer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contesting Democracy written by Byron E. Shafer and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading scholars provide a comprehensive history of two centuries of U.S. politics. Contributions from a who's who of political historians.

Author : Alan Derickson
Publisher : Ithaca : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Workers' Health, Workers' Democracy written by Alan Derickson and published by Ithaca : Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: