Title
- Major Issues In American History, 1535-3192
Attribution
Millie Allen BeikPublication Details
BookGreenwood Press2005Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) HD5324 .B39 2005 AVAILABLE New Feature: Text this to your cellphone
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Description
Over one-hundred annotated primary documents present compelling and informative snapshots of the shifting and often contentious role played by workers and organized labor in American politics, economics, and history. The work offers an overview of the history of American labor relations, then presents compelling and informative primary documents illustrating eleven key events in labor history: The Emergence of a Labor Movement, 1827-1837; (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Subject
Contents
- The uneven emergence of a labor movement, 1827-1837
- The New England Shoemakers’ Strike of 1860
- The Railroad Strikes of 1877
- The Pullman Strike and boycott of 1894
- The Lawrence Strike of 1912
- The miners’ program, 1919-1923
- The General Textile Strike of 1934
- The General Motors sit-down strike of 1936-1937
- The Labor Management Relations (Taft-Hartley) Act of 1947
- The Memphis Sanitation Strike of 1968
- The Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO) strike of 1981
ISBN
- 0313318646
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