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American workers, American unions : the twentieth century / Robert H. Zieger & Gilbert J. Gall.
LIBRA HD6508 .Z53 2002
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Zieger, Robert H.
- Series:
- American moment
- The American moment
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Labor unions--United States--History--20th century.
- Labor unions.
- United States.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 292 pages ; 23 cm.
- Edition:
- Third edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002.
- Summary:
- "What this little book does, and does engagingly and perceptively, is to analyze the cyclical fortunes of organized labor... Eminently successful." -- History
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 The New Industrial Regime 1
- Chapter 2 War, Prosperity, and Depression, 1914-1933 33
- Chapter 3 Rebirth of the Unions, 1933-1939 66
- Chapter 4 Labor Goes to War, 1939-1945 104
- Chapter 5 Strikes, Politics, Radicalism, 1945-1950 144
- Chapter 6 Affluent Workers, Stable Unions: Labor in the Postwar Decades 182
- Chapter 7 Race, War, Politics: Labor in the 1960s 214
- Chapter 8 Labor into the Twenty-First Century 240.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [271]-277) and index.
- ISBN:
- 080187078X
- OCLC:
- 49249899
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