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One of New York City's most powerful unions, the Hotel and Gaming Trades Council, AFL-CIO, represents almost 40,000 workers. Shaun Richman's history places the labor organization within the context of American industrial and craft unionism and reveals how it came to influence politics and economic development in the city and beyond. From the ......
A timely account of workers taking back their unionIn this extraordinary tale of union democracy, Dana L. Cloud engages union reformers at Boeing in Wichita and Seattle to reveal how ordinary workers attempted to take command of their futures by chipping away at the cozy partnership between union leadership and corporate management. Taking readers ......
Identity formation and the power of place in the shaping of history
Ambitious and revelatory, We Are What We Drink tells a close-grained story about the ways alcohol consumption connected to identity in the upper Midwest.
Sabine N. Meyer examines the ever-shifting ways that ethnicity, gender, ......
A who's who of Lincoln scholars explores why Lincoln considered the Union the ''last best hope of earth'' and how his words and deeds have continued to shape the nation through modern times. Focusing on Lincoln's view of American history and his legacy for the United States and the world, this volume demonstrates the complexity of the problems ......
Brothers and Sisters in Nineteenth-Century America
While much attention has been devoted to connections in American families between husbands and wives and between parents and children, We Grew Up Together enters virtually uncharted territory by exploring the emotional relationships among siblings. Through the letters brothers and sisters wrote to each other over the course of nearly a century ......
A History of the Industrial Workers of the World (abridged ed.)
This is the classic history of the Industrial Workers of the World, the influential band of labor militants whose activism mobilized America's poorest and most marginalized workers in the years before World War I. Originally published in 1969, Melvyn Dubofsky's We Shall Be All has remained the definitive archive-based history of the IWW. While ......
Known as the Forgotten War, the ''police action'' in Korea resulted in almost as many American combat deaths in three years as the Vietnam War did in ten. Yet for many Americans today, the Korean War brings to mind nothing more than the television series ''M*A*S*H.'' William Dannenmaier served in Korea with the U.S. Army from December 1952 to ......
African American Women in Detroit and Richmond, 1940-54
During World War II, factories across America retooled for wartime production, and unprecedented labor opportunities opened up for women and minorities. In We, Too, Are Americans, Megan Taylor Shockley examines the experiences of the African American women who worked in two capitols of industry--Detroit, Michigan, and Richmond, Virginia--during ......
Actors' Unionism in Early Twentieth-Century America
Published to coincide with the centenary of the founding of the Actors' Equity Association in 1913, Weavers of Dreams, Unite! explores the history of actors' unionism in the United States from the late nineteenth century to the onset of the Great Depression. Drawing upon hitherto untapped archival resources in New York and Los Angeles, Sean P. ......
