State Making And Labor Movements
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Author |
: Gerald Friedman |
Publisher |
: Cornell University Press |
Total Pages |
: 348 |
Release |
: 1998 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0801423252 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780801423253 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (52 Downloads) |
Synopsis State-making and Labor Movements by : Gerald Friedman
This study of the evolution of labour movements in the US and France from 1876 to 1914, illuminates the turn to syndicalism in France and craft unionism in the USA, and the impact each form of unionization had on the shaping of the French and the US states.
Author |
: Nelson Lichtenstein |
Publisher |
: Princeton University Press |
Total Pages |
: 402 |
Release |
: 2013-08-25 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781400848140 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1400848148 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (40 Downloads) |
Synopsis State of the Union by : Nelson Lichtenstein
In a fresh and timely reinterpretation, Nelson Lichtenstein examines how trade unionism has waxed and waned in the nation's political and moral imagination, among both devoted partisans and intransigent foes. From the steel foundry to the burger-grill, from Woodrow Wilson to John Sweeney, from Homestead to Pittston, Lichtenstein weaves together a compelling matrix of ideas, stories, strikes, laws, and people in a streamlined narrative of work and labor in the twentieth century. The "labor question" became a burning issue during the Progressive Era because its solution seemed essential to the survival of American democracy itself. Beginning there, Lichtenstein takes us all the way to the organizing fever of contemporary Los Angeles, where the labor movement stands at the center of the effort to transform millions of new immigrants into alert citizen unionists. He offers an expansive survey of labor's upsurge during the 1930s, when the New Deal put a white, male version of industrial democracy at the heart of U.S. political culture. He debunks the myth of a postwar "management-labor accord" by showing that there was (at most) a limited, unstable truce. Lichtenstein argues that the ideas that had once sustained solidarity and citizenship in the world of work underwent a radical transformation when the rights-centered social movements of the 1960s and 1970s captured the nation's moral imagination. The labor movement was therefore tragically unprepared for the years of Reagan and Clinton: although technological change and a new era of global economics battered the unions, their real failure was one of ideas and political will. Throughout, Lichtenstein argues that labor's most important function, in theory if not always in practice, has been the vitalization of a democratic ethos, at work and in the larger society. To the extent that the unions fuse their purpose with that impulse, they can once again become central to the fate of the republic. State of the Union is an incisive history that tells the story of one of America's defining aspirations. This edition includes a new preface in which Lichtenstein engages with many of those who have offered commentary on State of the Union and evaluates the historical literature that has emerged in the decade since the book's initial publication. He also brings his narrative into the current moment with a final chapter, "Obama's America: Liberalism without Unions.?
Author |
: William E. Scheuerman |
Publisher |
: State University of New York Press |
Total Pages |
: 370 |
Release |
: 2021-10-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781438485508 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1438485506 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (08 Downloads) |
Synopsis A New American Labor Movement by : William E. Scheuerman
The American labor movement isn't dead. It's just moving from the bargaining table to the streets. In A New American Labor Movement, William Scheuerman analyzes how the decline of unions and the emergence of these new direct-action movements are reshaping the American labor movement. Tens of thousands of exploited workers—from farm laborers and gig drivers to freelance artists and restaurant workers—have taken to the streets in a collective attempt to attain a living wage and decent working conditions, with or without the help of unions. This new worker militancy, expressed through mass demonstrations, strikes, sit-ins, political action, and similar activities, has already achieved much success and offers models for workers to exercise their power in the twenty-first century. Finally, Scheuerman notes, many of the strategies of the new direct-action groups share features with the sectoral bargaining model that dominates the European labor movement, suggesting that sectoral bargaining may become the foundation of a new American labor movement.
Author |
: Nelson Lichtenstein |
Publisher |
: Princeton University Press |
Total Pages |
: 353 |
Release |
: 2012-10-26 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781400838523 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1400838525 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (23 Downloads) |
Synopsis State of the Union by : Nelson Lichtenstein
In a fresh and timely reinterpretation, Nelson Lichtenstein examines how trade unionism has waxed and waned in the nation's political and moral imagination, among both devoted partisans and intransigent foes. From the steel foundry to the burger-grill, from Woodrow Wilson to John Sweeney, from Homestead to Pittston, Lichtenstein weaves together a compelling matrix of ideas, stories, strikes, laws, and people in a streamlined narrative of work and labor in the twentieth century. The "labor question" became a burning issue during the Progressive Era because its solution seemed essential to the survival of American democracy itself. Beginning there, Lichtenstein takes us all the way to the organizing fever of contemporary Los Angeles, where the labor movement stands at the center of the effort to transform millions of new immigrants into alert citizen unionists. He offers an expansive survey of labor's upsurge during the 1930s, when the New Deal put a white, male version of industrial democracy at the heart of U.S. political culture. He debunks the myth of a postwar "management-labor accord" by showing that there was (at most) a limited, unstable truce. Lichtenstein argues that the ideas that had once sustained solidarity and citizenship in the world of work underwent a radical transformation when the rights-centered social movements of the 1960s and 1970s captured the nation's moral imagination. The labor movement was therefore tragically unprepared for the years of Reagan and Clinton: although technological change and a new era of global economics battered the unions, their real failure was one of ideas and political will. Throughout, Lichtenstein argues that labor's most important function, in theory if not always in practice, has been the vitalization of a democratic ethos, at work and in the larger society. To the extent that the unions fuse their purpose with that impulse, they can once again become central to the fate of the republic. State of the Union is an incisive history that tells the story of one of America's defining aspirations.
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Total Pages |
: |
Release |
: 1990 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:233408896 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (96 Downloads) |
Synopsis יוהאן הויזינחה כהיסטוריון תרבות by :
Author |
: Howard Kimeldorf |
Publisher |
: Univ of California Press |
Total Pages |
: 258 |
Release |
: 1999-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780520218338 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0520218337 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (38 Downloads) |
Synopsis Battling for American Labor by : Howard Kimeldorf
"This riveting, nuanced book takes seriously the workplace radicalism of many early twentieth century American workers. The restriction of working class militancy to the workplace, it shows, was no mere economism. Organizational rather than psychological in orientation, Battling For American Labor accounts for both the early preference of dockworkers in Philadelphia and hotel and restaurant workers in New York for the IWW rather than the AFL and for the reversal of this choice in the 1920s. In so doing, it points the way to a fresh reading of American labor history."—Ira Katznelson, Columbia University "Howard Kimeldorf's book, based on sound and solid historical research in archives, newspapers, journals, memoirs and oral histories, argues that workers in the United States, regardless of their precise union affiliation, harbored syndicalist tendencies which manifested themselves in direct action on the job. Because Kimeldorf's book reinterprets much of the history of the labor movement in the United States, it will surely generate much controversy among scholars and capture the attention of readers."—Melvyn Dubofsky, Binghamton University, SUNY "Howard Kimeldorf's new book is a very exciting accomplishment. This book will surely leave a major imprint on labor history and the sociology of labor. Kimeldorf's focus on repertoires of collective action and practice instead of ideology is a particularly important contribution; one that will force students of labor to rethink many worn-out arguments. After reading Battling For American Labor, one will no longer be able to assume the IWW's defeat was inevitable, or take seriously psychological theories of worker consciousness."—David Wellman, author of The Union Makes Us Strong
Author |
: Victoria C. Hattam |
Publisher |
: Princeton University Press |
Total Pages |
: 279 |
Release |
: 2014-07-14 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781400863082 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1400863082 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (82 Downloads) |
Synopsis Labor Visions and State Power by : Victoria C. Hattam
Why has labor played a more limited role in national politics in the United States than it has in other advanced industrial societies? Victoria Hattam demonstrates that voluntarism, as American labor's policy was known, was the American Federation of Labor's strategic response to the structure of the American state, particularly to the influence of American courts. The AFL's strategic calculation was not universal, however. This book reveals the competing ideologies and acts of interpretation that produced these variations in state-labor relations. Originally published in 1993. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author |
: Samuel Peter Orth |
Publisher |
: Good Press |
Total Pages |
: 182 |
Release |
: 2021-04-25 |
ISBN-10 |
: EAN:4057664610867 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (67 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Armies of Labor: A Chronicle of the Organized Wage-Earners by : Samuel Peter Orth
The American people, as they faced the approaching age with the experiences of the race behind them, fashioned many of their institutions 2and laws on British models. This is true to such an extent that the subject of this book, the rise of labor in America, cannot be understood without a preliminary survey of the British industrial system nor even without some reference to the feudal system, of which English society for many centuries bore the marks and to which many relics of tenure and of class and governmental responsibility may be traced. Feudalism was a society in which the status of an individual was fixed: he was underman or overman in a rigid social scale according as he considered his relation to his superiors or to his inferiors. Whatever movement there was took place horizontally, in the same class or on the same social level. The movement was not vertical, as it so frequently is today, and men did not ordinarily rise above the social level of their birth, never by design, and only perhaps by rare accident or genius. It was a little world of lords and serfs: of knights who graced court and castle, jousted at tournaments, or fought upon the field of battle; and of serfs who toiled in the fields, served in the castle, or, as the retainers of the knight, formed the crude soldiery of medieval days. For their labor and allegiance they were clothed and housed and fed. Yet though there were feast days gay with the color of pageantry and procession, the worker was always in a servile state, an underman dependent upon his master, and sometimes looking upon his condition as little better than slavery.
Author |
: William E. Forbath |
Publisher |
: Harvard University Press |
Total Pages |
: 231 |
Release |
: 2009-07-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780674037083 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0674037081 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (83 Downloads) |
Synopsis Law and the Shaping of the American Labor Movement by : William E. Forbath
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 |
: Gregory Mantsios |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 434 |
Release |
: 2012-11-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781136522314 |
ISBN-13 |
: 113652231X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (14 Downloads) |
Synopsis A New Labor Movement for the New Century by : Gregory Mantsios
This collection of original essays offers an inside view of the current state of American unions. Most of the contributors are prominent activists in the AFL-CIO, and their writings assess the state of the movement in the late 1990s.