Union Tactics and Economic Change : A Case Study of Three Philadelphia Textile Unions / Gladys L. Palmer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Palmer, Gladys L., Author.

Series:

Anniversary Collection

INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH DEPARTMENT, WHARTON SCHOOL OF FINANCE AND COMMERCE, UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA. RESEARCH STUDIES

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Textile workers--Labor unions--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.

Textile workers.

Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (232 p.)

Edition:

Reprint 2016

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Preface

Contents

I. THE PURPOSE AND METHOD OF THE STUDY

II. THE ECONOMIC SETTING

III. THE CARPET WORKERS LOSE THEIR UNIONS

IV. THE UPHOLSTERY WEAVERS FACE AN ECONOMIC CRISIS

V. THE HOSIERY WORKERS EXPERIMENT WITH NEW TACTICS

VI. SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS

APPENDIX

INDEX

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781512805079

1512805076

OCLC:

979781459