American rubber workers & organized labor, 1900-1941 / Daniel Nelson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nelson, Daniel, 1941- author.

Series:

Princeton Legacy Library

Princeton legacy library

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rubber industry workers--Labor unions--United States--History--20th century.

Rubber industry workers.

Labor unions--Organizing--United States--History--20th century.

Labor unions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (353 p.)

Edition:

Course Book

Other Title:

American rubber workers and organized labor, 1900-1941

American rubber workers and organized labor, 1900-1941.

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1988]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In 1900 the manufacture of rubber products in the United States was concentrated in several hundred small plants around New York and Boston that employed low-paid immigrant workers with no intervention from unions. By the mid-1930s, thanks to the automobile and the Depression, production was concentrated in Ohio, the labor force was largely native born and highly paid, and labor organizations had a decisive influence on the industry. Daniel Nelson tells the story of these changes as a case study of union growth against a background of critical developments in twentieth-century economic life.The author emphasizes the years after 1910, when a crucial distinction arose between big, mass-production rubber producers and those that were smaller and more labor intensive. In the 1930s mass-production workers took the lead in organizing the labor movement, and they dominated the international union, the United Rubber Workers, until the end of the decade. Professor Nelson discusses not only labor's triumph over adversity but also the problems that occurred with union victories: the flight of the industry to low-wage communities in the South and Midwest, internal tensions in the union, and rivalry with the American Federation of Labor. The experiences of the URW in the late 1930s foreshadowed the longer-term challenges that the labor movement has faced in recent decades.Originally published in 1988.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

ILLUSTRATIONS

PREFACE

ABBREVIATIONS

CHAPTER ONE. Introduction: The Rubber Workers and Organized Labor

CHAPTER TWO. New Industry, New Workers, 1900-1913

CHAPTER THREE. Innovations, 1913-1920

CHAPTER FOUR. Maturity, 1920-1929

CHAPTER SIX. Labor in Transition, 1934-1935

CHAPTER SEVEN. Union Revival, 1936

CHAPTER EIGHT. Labor on the March, 1936-1937

CHAPTER NINE. Labor on the March: Outlying Cities, 1936-1937

CHAPTER TEN. Setbacks, 1937-1938

CHAPTER ELEVEN. Stagnation and Rebirth, 1938-1941

EPILOGUE: The Rubber Workers in Retrospect

BIBLIOGRAPHIC NOTE

INDEX

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

Bibliography: pages [326]-327.

ISBN:

9781400859450

140085945X

9780691604794

0691604797

OCLC:

884013222