The fall of the house of labor : the workplace, the state, and American labor activism, 1865-1925 / David Montgomery.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Montgomery, David, 1927-2011, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Labor movement--United States--History.

Labor movement.

Labor unions--United States--History.

Labor unions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 494 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1987.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book studies the changing ways in which American industrial workers mobilised concerted action in their own interests between the abolition of slavery and the end of open immigration from Europe and Asia. Sustained class conflict between 1916 and 1922 reshaped governmental and business policies, but left labour largely unorganised and in retreat. The House of Labor, so arduously erected by working-class activists during the preceeding generation, did not collapse, but ossified, so that when labour activism was reinvigorated after 1933, the movement split in two. These developments are analysed here in ways which stress the links between migration, neighbourhood life, racial subjugation, business reform, the state, and the daily experience of work itself.

Contents:

The manager's brain under the workman's cap

The common laborer

The operative

The art of cutting metals

White shirts and superior intelligence

"Our time ... believes in change"

Patriots or paupers

"This great struggle for democracy"

"A maximum of publicity with a minimum of interference."

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

ISBN:

0-511-82637-0

1-139-92988-7

0-511-93672-9

1-139-92937-2

1-139-93361-2

1-139-93680-8

1-139-93913-0

0-511-52877-9