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.''The pick of a growing crop of studies on the American working ......
Seeking to historicize today's ''Great Recession,"" this volume of essays uses examples from North America, South America, Europe, Asia, and Australia to situate the current economic crisis and its impact on workers in the context of previous abrupt shifts in the modern-day capitalist marketplace. Contributors argue that factors such as race, sex, ......
Seeking to historicize today's Great Recession, this collection of essays uses examples from North America, South America, Europe, Asia, and Australia to situate the current economic crisis and its impact on workers in the context of previous abrupt shifts in the modern-day capitalist marketplace.
Topics highlight worker responses during the postwar boom era and include a comparative analysis of the social democracy of the United States and that of West Germany; inflation as the underside of liberal governance; the "Fordist" trap for Italian women; humanizing the workplace during the Sixties Revolution; and the many sides of the Catholic ......
This expanded second edition of Upheaval in the Quiet Zone updates the dramatic story of an insurgent labor union that by the end of the 1980s had established itself as a vital force in the modern labor movement. But even bigger changes were on the way. Overcoming internal divisions that originated in its 1930s-inflected and civil rights-era ......
In 2003, Leon Fink published his oral history of Guatemalan and Mexican migrants in Morganton, North Carolina, and their fight for unionization in a poultry processing plant. In the years since, Fink remained in touch with many of the people he profiled in the book, and in 2022 he returned to Morganton to interview them and talk with their ......
The origin of a modern cornerstone of labor relations
Opinions of specialized labor courts differ, but labor justice undoubtedly represented a decisive moment in worker's history. When and how did these courts take shape? Why did their originators consider them necessary?
The origin of a modern cornerstone of labor relations
Opinions of specialized labor courts differ, but labor justice undoubtedly represented a decisive moment in worker's history. When and how did these courts take shape? Why did their originators consider them necessary?
ESSAYS IN AMERICAN LABOR HISTORY AND POLITICAL CULTURE
These nine essays by a prominent scholar in American labor history self-consciously evoke the tensions between the worker as historical subject and the historian as outside observer. Encompassing studies of labor culture, strategy, and movement building from the late nineteenth century to the present, In Search of the Working Class also connects ......
