Skilled workers' solidarity : the American experience in comparative perspective / Antoine Joseph.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Joseph, Antoine L., 1951-

Series:

Garland reference library of social science ; v. 1412.

States and society ; v. 7.

Garland reference library of social science ; v. 1412

States and society ; v. 7

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Labor movement--United States--History.

Labor movement.

Skilled labor--United States--History.

Skilled labor.

Solidarity--History.

Solidarity.

Comparative industrial relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (236 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Garland Pub., 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Annotation Skilled Workers' Solidarity is a comparative historical analysis of capitalist democracy, focusing on development in the United States and offering comparisons with other western nations.

Contents:

Cover; SKILLED WORKER'S SOLIDARITY; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; CHAPTER 1: Modes of Class Formation; CHAPTER 2: Pathways to Capitalist Democracy: What Prevents Social Democracy?; CHAPTER 3: The Formation of Class Fractions; CHAPTER 4: The Logic of Particularism: Creating Solidarism among Skilled Workers; CHAPTER 5: The Political Contours of Class Conflict in the Gilded Age; CHAPTER 6: The Limits of Particularism: Labor Solidarism and Social Welfare in the United States; CHAPTER 7: Homogeneous Labor and Class Formation; Appendix A; Appendix B

Appendix CBibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-223) and index.

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

1-135-57884-2

1-135-57885-0

1-280-40713-1

0-203-90170-3

9780203901700

OCLC:

437082855