The encyclopedia of strikes in American history / Aaron Brenner, Benjamin Day, Immanuel Ness, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brenner, Aaron, editor.

Day, Benjamin, 1979- editor.

Ness, Immanuel, editor.

Credo Reference (Firm)

Series:

Gale eBooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Strikes and lockouts--United States--Encyclopedias.

Strikes and lockouts.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxxix, 750 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A collection of historical research on strikes in America comprised of two types of essays, those focused on an industry or economic sector and those focused on a theme. This approach provides a detailed perspective as well broad historical and social coverage of the topic.

Contents:

Editors and contributors

List of abbreviations

Topic finder

Introduction to the Encyclopedia of strikes in American history / Aaron Brenner

Types of strikes / Aaron Brenner

Part I. Strikes: theory and practice

Introduction / by Aaron Brenner

Strikes in American history / Aaron Brenner

Theories of strikes / Gerald Friedman

Socialist theories of strikes / Christopher Phelps

The news media and strikes / Christopher R. Martin

The business community's mercenaries: strikebreakers and union busters / Robert Smith

Corporate strike strategy / Kim Phillips-Fein

The decline of strikes / Jeremy Brecher

Strike lessons from the last twenty-five years: what it takes to walk out and win / Steve Early

Part II. Strikes and working class culture

Introduction / by Benjamin Day

Dressed for defiance: the clothing of female strikers, 1910-1935 / Deirdre Clemente

Better than a hundred speeches: the strike song / Timothy P. Lynch

Civil rights strikes / Todd Michney

World War II hate strikes / James Wolfinger

Polish workers and strikes, 1900-1937 / James S. Pula

North Carolina women on strike / Roxanne Newton

The Catholic Church and strikes / Dan La Botz

Strikes led by the Trade Union Unity League, 1929-1934 / Victor G. Devinatz

Part III. Strike waves

The strike wave of 1877 / John P. Lloyd

World War I era strikes / Cecelia Bucki

The rise and fall of the sit-down strike / Rachel Meyer

The 1945-1946 strike wave / Jack Metzgar

Strikes in the United States since World War II / Nicola Pizzolato

Part IV. Public sector strikes

Introduction / by Immanuel Ness

Labor and the Boston police strike of 1919 / Joseph Slater

Teachers' strikes / John P. Lloyd

Postal workers' strikes / Aaron Brenner

Three strikes against the New York City transit system / Michael Hirsch

Social workers and strikes / Howard Karger

Part V. Strikes in the private sector

Section 1. Manufacturing, mining, and agricultural strikes

Strikes and apprenticeship in the United States / Daniel Jacoby

Strikes in the nineteenth-century cotton textile industry in the Northeast United States / Mary H. Blewett

Twentieth-century textile strikes / David J. Goldberg

Garment worker strikes / Paul Le Blanc

Steel strikes before 1935 / John Hinshaw

Steel on strike: from 1936 to the present / Robert Bruno

Unionizing the "jungle": a century of meatpacking strikes / Jackie S. Gabriel

Automobile workers' strikes / Ian Collin Greer

Rubber workers' strikes / John L. Woods

Plumbing strikes / Kim Phillips-Fein

Agricultural strikes / Dan La Botz

Labor and the transformation of the Hawaiian sugar industry / Edward D. Beechert

The Redwoods Lumber and Sawmill Workers' strike / Calvin Winslow

The Watsonville Cannery strike, 1985-1987 / Myrna Cherkoss Donahoe

Coal miners on strike and the formation of a national union / Jon Amsden and Stephen Brier

Mesabi Iron Miners' strikes / Gerald Ronning

The rise and fall of rank-and-file miner militancy, 1964-2007 / Paul J. Nyden

Section 2. Infrastructure industry strikes

Labor upheaval on the nation's railroads, 1877-1922 / Theresa Ann Case

Strikes by telegraph workers / Anthony J. Silva

Telegraph messenger strikes and their impact on telegraph unionization / Greg Downey

Trolley wars / Scott Molloy

Seafarers' strikes in American history / Nathan Lillie

Longshoremen's strikes, 1900-1920 / Calvin Winslow

Strikes on the port of New York 1945-1960 / William Mello

Strikes in the U.S. airline industry, 1919-2004 / David J. Walsh

Aerospace engineer strikes / Stan Sorscher

Teamster strikes and organizing, 1934-1964

Section 3. Service industry strikes

Newsboy strikes / Jon Bekken

Retail workers' strikes / Daniel J. Opler

Waitress strikes / Dorothy Sue Cobble

Office workers' strikes / Vernon Mogensen

Strikes in the motion picture industry / Andrew Dawson

Attorney strikes at the Legal Aid Society of New York City / Michael Z. Letwin

Musician strikes / Damone Richardson

Striking the ivory tower: student employee strikes at private universities / Mandi Isaacs Jackson

The Boston University strike of 1979 / Gary Zabel

Strikes by professional athletes / Michael Schiavone

Nurses on strike / Lisa Hayes

Organizing home health care workers in New York City / Immanuel Ness

Additional bibliography.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes at the end of each chapters.

ISBN:

9786612554728

9781317457060

1317457064

9781315699844

1315699842

9781317457077

1317457072

9781282554726

1282554727

9781849727129

1849727120

9780765626455

0765626454

OCLC:

647895025