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Running the rails : capital and labor in the Philadelphia transit industry / James Wolfinger.
LIBRA HE4491.P52 W65 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wolfinger, James, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Local transit--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--History.
- Local transit.
- Industrial relations--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--History.
- Industrial relations.
- History.
- Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- x, 282 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2016.
- Contents:
- Capital and the shifting nature of social control
- Beginnings
- Working on the line
- Time of troubles
- The age of Thomas Mitten
- Hard times and a hate strike
- Labor relations and public relations
- National city lines and the imperatives of postwar capitalism
- Advances hard won and well-deserved.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-282) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781501702402
- 1501702408
- OCLC:
- 927381815
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