Workers in America : a historical encyclopedia / [edited by] Robert E. Weir.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Weir, Robert E., 1952-

Series:

Gale eBooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Labor--United States--History--Encyclopedias.

Labor.

Working class--United States--History--Encyclopedia.

Working class.

Labor movement--United States--History--Encyclopedias.

Labor movement.

Industrial relations--United States--History--Encyclopedias.

Industrial relations.

Labor laws and legislation--United States--History--Encyclopedias.

Labor laws and legislation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (2 volumes (xxiii, 920 pages)) : illustrations

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2024

Place of Publication:

Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, c2013.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file HTML

Summary:

""Each entry essay is, on average, two to four pages in length; a few are shorter. Although the essays are relatively short, they are well-written and concise, and are packed with information. Each entry is followed by a short list of 'Suggested Reading' selected for availability and readability by the target audience of nonspecialists."" - <STRONG> ARBA </STRONG>

Contents:

""Cover""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""How to Use This Work""; ""Volume 1""; ""Actors and Labor""; ""Adair v. The United States""; ""Adamson Act""; ""Affirmative Action""; ""Agency Fee""; ""Agent Provocateur""; ""Agrarianism""; ""Agricultural Labor Relations Act""; ""Airline Strikes""; ""Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel, and Tin Workers""; ""Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America""; ""American Federation of Government Employees""; ""American Federation of Labor""

""American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations""""American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees""; ""American Federation of Teachers""; ""American Plan""; ""American Railway Union""; ""Anarchism""; ""Anarcho-syndicalism""; ""Anthracite Coal Strike of 1902""; ""A. Philip Randolph Institute""; ""Apprentice""; ""Arbitration/Conciliation/Mediation""; ""Aristocrats of Labor""; ""Artisan Labor""; ""Asian American Labor""; ""Assembly-Line Production""; ""Association of Catholic Trade Unionists""; ""Automation""; ""Bacon's Rebellion""; ""Bagley, Sarah""

""Barry, Leonora Marie""""Battle of Blair Mountain""; ""Bellamy, Edward""; ""Bituminous Coal Strikes of 1974 and 1977-1978""; ""Blacklist""; ""Black Lung Disease and Strike""; ""Blue-Collar Labor""; ""Boston Police Strike of 1919""; ""Boulwarism""; ""Boycott""; ""Braceros""; ""Brewery Workers""; ""Bridges, Harry""; ""Bridgestone-Firestone Strike, 1994�1995""; ""Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers""; ""Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters""; ""Browder, Earl Russell""; ""Buck's Stove & Range Co. v. American Federation of Labor et al""; ""Bumping""; ""Bureau of Labor Statistics""

""Colonial Labor""""Colorado Labor Wars""; ""Colored National Labor Union""; ""Columbine Mine Massacre""; ""Commonwealth v. Hunt""; ""Communism and Unions""; ""Company Town""; ""Company Union""; ""Comparable Worth""; ""Computer Revolution and Organized Labor""; ""Concessions""; ""Congress of Industrial Organizations""; ""Contingency Labor""; ""Contract""; ""Contract Labor""; ""Cooperatives""; ""Copper Miners and Strikes""; ""Corporate Campaign""; ""Cost-of-Living Adjustment""; ""Counterculture and Labor""; ""Cowboys""; ""Coxey's Army""; ""Craft Unionism""; ""Davis-Bacon Act""; ""Deadheading""

""Dead Time""

Notes:

Rev. ed. of: Historical encyclopedia of American labor / edited by Robert Weir and James P. Hanlan. c2004.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9798216038696

9798216168140

9781785394812

1785394819

9781598847192

1598847198

9781299138018

1299138012

OCLC:

827334843

Publisher Number:

10.5040/9798216038696 doi