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A Workplace of Their Own : Rockefeller, Roche, and Labor's Battle over Industrial Democracy.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Montoya, María E.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Labor disputes.
Management.
Strikes and lockouts.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (302 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Place of Publication:
New York : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2026.
Summary:
Through the lens of Colorado's deadly coal wars, A Workplace of Their Own examines how miners and their families struggled to gain control of their workplace and their homes against powerful operators, particularly John D. Rockefeller, Jr., reformer Josephine Roche, and more radical advocates, like Mother Jones and the IWW. This episode in labor-management relations sheds light on ongoing issues related to workers and power in an industrial democracy.
Contents:
Cover
A Workplace of Their Own : Rockefeller, Roche, and Labor's Battle Over Industrial Democracy
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Introduction
Prologue
1: Ensuring a Workplace of Their Own, 1893-1903
Colorado Hard-Rock Miners' Quest for Local Producerism
The WFM and Local Producerism
The 1903 Hard-Rock Miners' Colorado Labor War
Miners' Freedom in the Coal Camps
The Other Half of Colorado's Labor Wars: The Southern Coalfields
2: The Road to Ludlow
Business Sovereignty as Magnate Paternalism
The Colorado Labor Wars and the Citizens' Alliances
Reform Off-Ramps on the Road to Violence: Summit Arbitration and Maternalism
The End of the Road: Showdown between Business Sovereignty and Labor Producerism
3: Undoing the Sins of the Fathers
The Philanthropic Foundation and the Settlement House
Roche and Junior Confront Working Women
Colorado as Ground for Expertise
The End of Expertise
4: Americanizing Workers Divided Reformers, the Red Scare, and the Klan
Creel and Roche Go to War
Harnessing Nationalism for Progressive Ends
CF&amp
I Americanizes Its Miners
Red Scare, Industrial War, and the Privatization of Industrial Relations
The Failure of the IRP to Win Workers' Trust
The KKK's Anti-Foreign Campaign in Colorado
5: The Columbine Strike and Recognition of the United Mine Workers
The Road to Columbine
The Strike Takes a Deadly Turn
The Lingering and Violent Aftermath
Roche Takes Control and Recognizes UMW
Economic Collapse
6: The Limits of New Deal Reform The Failure of Summit Arbitration
Depression Hits the Coal Industry
The Emerging Roche/Lewis Collaboration
Conserving Human Capital
Roche, Roosevelt, and Recovery
Limitations of Reform in the New Deal
Disappointment Sets in over National Health Care
Epilogue.
Roche's Disillusion with the New Deal
Rockefeller's "Rehabilitation"
Acknowledgments
Notes
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Epilogue
Bibliography
Primary Sources
Archives
Periodicals
Government Documents
Court Cases
Published Primary Sources
Secondary Sources
Index.
Notes:
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ISBN:
0-19-755170-X
0-19-755171-8
0-19-755172-6
9780197551707
OCLC:
1565468284

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