"A broad and ennobling spirit" : workers and their unions in late Gilded Age New York and Brooklyn, 1886-1898 / Ronald Mendel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mendel, Ronald, 1947-

Series:

Contributions in labor studies 1886-1898 ; no. 59.

Contributions in labor studies, 1886-1898 ; no. 59

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Labor unions--New York (State)--New York--History--19th century.

Labor unions.

Working class--New York (State)--New York--History--19th century.

Working class.

History.

Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.).

New York (State)--New York.

Physical Description:

xxxi, 226 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2003.

Contents:

1 Workers in the Metropolitan Economies of New York and Brooklyn 1

2 The State of Labor in 1886: Trade Union Development and the Springtime of Labor Reform 19

3 Cooperative Unionism and the Printers' Reassertion of Craft Labor 47

4 Cigarmakers at the Crossroads: Defending a Craft or Organizing an Industry? 81

5 Building Tradesmen: Labor's Militant Pragmatists 111

6 Garment Workers and the Travail of Seasonal Unionism 143

7 Labor and Electoral Politics in the 1890s: Trade Unionism by Other Means 175.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [205]-222) and index.

ISBN:

0313321345

OCLC:

51460668