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Working Hard for the American Dream : Workers and Their Unions, World War I to the Present - Russell A. Miller
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EAN (ISBN-13): 9781118541418
ISBN (ISBN-10): 1118541413
Publishing year: 2013
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
304 Pages
Language: eng/Englisch

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ISBN/EAN: 9781118541418

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Author: Randi Storch
Title: The American History Series; Working Hard for the American Dream - Workers and Their Unions, World War I to the Present
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell; John Wiley & Sons
304 Pages
Publishing year: 2013-03-06
Language: English
26,99 € (DE)

EA; E107; E-Book; Nonbooks, PBS / Geschichte/Regionalgeschichte, Ländergeschichte; Amerikanische Geschichte; Geschichte; Geschichte der USA; History; US History; USA /Geschichte; Geschichte der USA; Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA; BB; BC

List of Illustrations vii Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Back to the Future 1 1 "Everyone Was Ready For Unionism": ThePrecursors, Promises, and Pitfalls of Industrial Unions in the1930s 10 Political Prelude: Industrial Democracy Betrayed, from Wilson toHoover 12 Corporate Prelude: The Unintended Consequences of 1920sCorporate Policies 25 Working-Class Prelude: Activism 32 A New Deal for Workers: A Failed and Flawed Start 41 Fighting for Unionism in the 1930s Without Meaningful FederalProtection 44 The Wagner Act and Industrial Unionism 48 Corporate Resistance and Workers' Unity 58 Extending the New Deal for Workers 61 Assessing Workers' New Deal and Industrial Unionism 65 Conclusion 68 2 Big Wars, Big Labor, Big Costs 70 Wartime Mobilization, 1939-1941 73 Government Intervention: War Industries and Labor Policies,1941-1945 87 Wartime Demographic Developments 93 Crisis in Industrial Relations, 1945-1946 103 Postwar Politics and Taft-Hartley, 1946-1948 108 Political (Mis)calculations: Operation Dixie, CIO Purges, andInternational Alliances, 1946-1950s 114 Big Labor, Big Costs, 1955-1960s 120 Conclusion 127 3 Civil Rights Versus Labor Rights, 1960s-1970s128 Expanding Public and Service Sectors 131 Public Sector Workers and Union Rights 133 New Laws and Workplace Challenges 141 Women and Workplace Rights 151 The Push and Pull of Changing Times: New Unionists,Rank-and-File Movements, AFL-CIO Leaders, and Nixon 157 Unionists Divided and Under Siege 169 Conclusion 172 4 Working More for Less and Other Troubles for Workers in theLate Twentieth Century 174 Profit Making in a Global World 176 The Human Price of Modern Capitalism 182 The Political Shaping of the Economy 189 The AFL-CIO Leadership's Resistance to Change 199 Innovation and Possibilities 205 Change from the Bottom-Up 216 Conclusion 222 Epilogue: The Illusive American Dream: A Personal Journey224 Bibliographical Essay 253 Index 278
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