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XXXIX, 750 S.
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9780765613301
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0765613301
Content:
Strikes have been part of American labor relations from colonial days to the present, reflecting the widespread class conflict that has run throughout the nation's history. Against employers and their goons, against the police, the National Guard, local, state, and national officials, against racist vigilantes, against their union leaders, and against each other, American workers have walked off the job for higher wages, better benefits, bargaining rights, legislation, job control, and just plain dignity. At times, their actions have motivated groundbreaking legislation, defining new rights for all citizens; at other times they have led to loss of workers' lives. This comprehensive encyclopedia is the first detailed collection of historical research on strikes in America. To provide the analytical tools for understanding strikes, the volume includes two types of essays - those focused on an industry or economic sector, and those focused on a theme. Each industry essay introduces a group of workers and their employers and places them in their economic, political, and community contexts. The essay then describes the industry's various strikes, including the main issues involved and outcomes achieved, and assesses the impact of the strikes on the industry over time. Thematic essays address questions that can only be answered by looking at a variety of strikes across industries, groups of workers, and time, such as, why the number of strikes has declined since the 1970s, or why there was a strike wave in 1946. The contributors include historians, sociologists, anthropologists, and philosophers, as well as current and past activists from unions and other social movement organizations. Photos, a Topic Finder, a bibliography, and name and subject indexes add to the works appeal.
Content:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Editors and Contributors -- List of Abbreviations -- Timeline -- Topic Finder -- Introduction to The Encyclopedia of Strikes in American History -- Types of Strikes -- Part I. Strikes: Theory and Practice -- Strikes in American History -- Theories of Strikes -- Socialist Theories of Strikes -- The News Media and Strikes -- The Business Community's Mercenaries: Strikebreakers and Union Busters -- Corporate Strike Strategy -- The Decline of Strikes -- Strike Lessons From the Last Twenty-Five Years: What it Takes to Walk Out and Win -- Part II. Strikes and Working-Class Culture -- Dressed for Defiance: The Clothing of Female Strikers, 1910-1935 -- Better Than a Hundred Speeches": The Strike Song -- Civil Rights Strikes -- World War II Hate Strikes -- Polish Workers and Strikes, 1900-1937 -- North Carolina Women on Strike -- The Catholic Church and Strikes -- Strikes Led by the Trade Union Unity League, 1929-1934 -- Part III. Strike Waves -- The Strike Wave of 1877 -- World War I Era Strikes -- The Rise and Fall of the Sit-Down Strike -- The 1945-1946 Strike Wave -- Strikes in the United States Since World War II -- Part IV Public Sector Strikes -- Labor and the Boston Police Strike of 1919 -- Teachers' Strikes -- Postal Workers' Strikes -- Three Strikes Against the New York City Transit System -- Social Workers and Strikes -- Part V Strikes in the Private Sector -- Section 1. Manufacturing, Mining, and Agricultural Strikes -- Strikes and Apprenticeship in the United States -- Strikes in the Nineteenth-Century Cotton Textile Industry in the Northeast United States -- Twentieth-Century Textile Strikes -- Garment Worker Strikes -- Steel Strikes Before 1935 -- Steel on Strike: From 1936 to the Present -- Unionizing the "Jungle": A Century of Meatpacking Strikes.
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