During the tumultuous era of World War I and the years immediately following, the leadership of the United States had shifted from Wilson to Harding and the mood of the nation from pro-labor to pro-business. Colin Davis introduces readers to the 400,000 railroad shopmen and their working world and to the national government's dynamic influence on labor from 1917 to 1922. Davis's study provides a much-needed synthesis of shifting power relations among labor, capital, and the state, as well as a cogent interpretation of union structural experimentation and failure. It will be of interest to social, political, business, legal, and labor historians.
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During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries the railroads functioned as the major conduits of American economic and social life. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
shopcraft unions, outlaw resolution, women shopworkers, striking shopmen, railroad labor board, operating brotherhoods, local strike leader, operating crafts, system federation, railroad shopmen, railroad workforce, other railroad workers, box loo, eastern presidents, strike report, returning strikers, situational reports, new labor history, rail executives, railroad communities, replacement labor, shop force, railroad guards, railroad management, strike situation Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Pennsylvania Railroad, Great Northern, Big Four, United States, Bert Jewell, Southern Pacific Railroad, Railway Age, Department of Labor, Seaboard Airline, West Virginia, New Jersey, New Mexico, San Francisco, Herbert Hoover, Kansas City, President Harding, Rock Island, Erie Railroad, Union Pacific, Atlantic Coast Line Railroad, North Carolina, Northern Pacific, Santa Fe Railroad, William Johnston New!
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During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries the railroads functioned as the major conduits of American economic and social life. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
shopcraft unions, outlaw resolution, women shopworkers, striking shopmen, railroad labor board, operating brotherhoods, local strike leader, operating crafts, system federation, railroad shopmen, railroad workforce, other railroad workers, box loo, eastern presidents, strike report, returning strikers, situational reports, new labor history, rail executives, railroad communities, replacement labor, shop force, railroad guards, railroad management, strike situation Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Pennsylvania Railroad, Great Northern, Big Four, United States, Bert Jewell, Southern Pacific Railroad, Railway Age, Department of Labor, Seaboard Airline, West Virginia, New Jersey, New Mexico, San Francisco, Herbert Hoover, Kansas City, President Harding, Rock Island, Erie Railroad, Union Pacific, Atlantic Coast Line Railroad, North Carolina, Northern Pacific, Santa Fe Railroad, William Johnston New!
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- American Labor on 7 pages
- GENERATION OF BOOMERS (Working Class in American History) by Shelton Stromquist on 4 pages
- The State and Labor in Modern America by Melvyn Dubofsky in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- We Shall Be All: A History of the Industrial Workers of the World (abridged ed.) (Working Class in American History) by Melvyn Dubofsky in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Kansas City : An American Story by Rick Montgomery in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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