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2) Strike!
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"An exciting history of American labor". -- The New York Times Book Review "New and Recommended" List.
"Splendid. Clearly the best single-volume summary yet published of American general strikes". -- Washington Post.
"A magnificent book. I hope it will take its place as the standard history of American labor". -- Staughton Lynd, labor historian.
Since its original publication in 1972, no book has done as much as Jeremy Brecher's Strike! to bring...
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From the close of the Civil War into the early twentieth century, industrialization swept through America. Huge corporations rose to economic dominance, while millions found themselves dependent upon wages--and severe tensions resulted in frequent clashes. During the Progressive era, the United States Commission on Industrial Relations traversed the country, holding hearings wherein over 700 witness appeared, and researching a range of industries...
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Publisher's description: From the beginning of the Industrial Age and continuing into the twenty-first century, companies faced with militant workers and organizers have often turned to agencies that specialized in ending strikes and breaking unions. Although their secretive nature has made it difficult to fully explore the history of this industry, From Blackjacks to Briefcases does just that. By digging through subpoenaed documents of strike-bound...
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Ravenswood recounts how the United Steelworkers of America, in a battle waged over an aluminum plant in West Virginia, proved that organized labor can still win - even against a company controlled by one of the world's richest and most powerful men. The book provides an insider's look at the new tactics that many in the labor movement hope will revitalize the struggle for workers' rights in America.
On November 1, 1990, just as its contract with...
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Once a fundamental civic right, strikes are now constrained and contested. In an unusual and thought-provoking history, Josiah Bartlett Lambert shows how the ability to strike was transformed from a fundamental right that made the citizenship of working people possible into a conditional and commercialized function. Arguing that the executive branch, rather than the judicial branch, was initially responsible for the shift in attitudes about the necessity...
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