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We Always Had A Union - The New York Hotel Workers' Union, 1912-1953

by Shaun Richman

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 One of New York Cityâ€™s most powerful unions, the Hotel and Gaming Trades Council, AFL-CIO, represents almost 40,000 workers. Shaun Richmanâ€™s history places the labor organization within the context of American industrial and craft unionism and reveals how it came to influence politics and economic development in the city and beyond.
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Counterfeiting Labor'S Voice - William A. A. Carsey And The Shaping Of American Reform Politics

by Mark A. Lause

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 Confidence man and canny operative, charlatan and manipulator--William A. A. Carsey emerged from the shadow of Tammany Hall to build a career undermining working-class political organizations on behalf of the Democratic Party. Mark A. Lause’s biography of Carsey takes readers inside the bare-knuckle era of Gilded Age politics. An astroturfing trailblazer and master of dirty tricks, Carsey fit perfectly into a Democratic Party that based much of its post-Civil War revival on shattering third parties and gathering up the pieces. Lause provides an in-depth look at Carsey’s tactics and successes against the backdrop of enormous changes in political life. As Carsey used a carefully crafted public persona to burrow into unsuspecting organizations, the forces he represented worked to create a political system that turned voters into disengaged civic consumers and cemented America’s ever-fractious two-party system.
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Chicagoland Dream Houses - How A Mid-Century Architecture Competition Reimagined The American Home

by Siobhan Moroney

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 â€œChicagoland Dream Houses is an engaging addition to the growing body of scholarship concerning Chicagoâ€™s twentieth-century residential landscape characterized by a diverse group of architects and builders.â€--Michelangelo Sabatino, coauthor of Modern in the Middle: Chicago Houses 1929â€"1975
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The Rise Of The Chicago Police Department - Class And Conflict, 1850-1894

by Sam Mitrani

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 Mitrani cogently examines the making of the police department in Chicago. Chicago was roiling with political and economic conflict, much of it rooted in class tensions, and the city's lawmakers and business elite fostered the growth of a professional municipal police force to protect capitalism, its assets, and their own positions in society.
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Public Workers In Service Of America - A Reader

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 From white-collar executives to mail carriers, public workers meet the needs of the entire nation. Frederick W. Gooding Jr. and Eric S. Yellin edit a collection of new research on this understudied workforce.
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On The Waves Of Empire - U.S. Imperialism And Merchant Sailors, 1872-1924

by William D. Riddell

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 In the aftermath of the Spanish-American War, the United Statesâ€™ acquisition of an overseas empire compelled the nation to reconsider the boundary between domestic and foreign--and between nation and empire. William D. Riddell looks at the experiences of merchant sailors and labor organizations to illuminate how domestic class conflict influenced Americaâ€™s emerging imperial system.
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Working-Class America - Essays On Labor, Community, And American Society

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 At the time of its original publication, <i>Working-Class America</i> represented the new labor history <i>par excellence</i>. A roster of noteworthy scholars in the field contribute original essays written during a pivotal time in the nation''s history and within the discipline. Moving beyond historical-sociological analyses, the authors take readers inside the lives of the real men and women behind the statistics. The result is a classic collection focused on the human dimensions of the field, one valuable not only as a resource for historiography but as a snapshot of workers and their concerns in the 1980s.
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Solidarity And Fragmentation - Working People And Class Consciousness In Detroit, 1875-1900

by Richard Jules Oestreicher

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 How did the interplay between class and ethnicity play out within the working class during the Gilded Age? Richard Jules Oestreicher illuminates the immigrant communities, radical politics, worker-employer relationships, and the multiple meanings of workers'' affiliations in Detroit at the end of the nineteenth century.
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Women And American Socialism, 1870-1920

by Mari Jo Buhle

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 Socialist women faced the often thorny dilemma of fitting their concern with women''s rights into their commitment to socialism. Mari Jo Buhle examines women''s efforts to agitate for suffrage, sexual and economic emancipation, and other issues and the political and intellectual conflicts that arose in response. In particular, she analyzes the clash between a nativist socialism influence by ideas of individual rights and the class-based socialism championed by German American immigrants. As she shows, the two sides diverged, often greatly, in their approaches and their definitions of women''s emancipation. Their differing tactics and goals undermined unity and in time cost women their independence within the larger movement.
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Labor'S Outcasts - Migrant Farmworkers And Unions In North America, 1934-1966

by Andrew J. Hazelton

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 In the mid-twentieth century, corporations consolidated control over agriculture on the backs of Mexican migrant laborers through a guestworker system called the Bracero Program. The National Agricultural Workers Union (NAWU) attempted to organize these workers but met with utter indifference from the AFL-CIO. Andrew J. Hazelton examines the NAWU''s opposition to the Bracero Program against the backdrop of Mexican migration and the transformation of North American agriculture. His analysis details growers’ abuse of the program to undercut organizing efforts, the NAWU''s subsequent mobilization of reformers concerned by those abuses, and grower opposition to any restrictions on worker control. Though the union''s organizing efforts failed, it nonetheless created effective strategies for pressuring growers and defending workers’ rights. These strategies contributed to the abandonment of the Bracero Program in 1964 and set the stage for victories by the United Farm Workers and other movements in the years to come.
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Fraying Fabric - How Trade Policy And Industrial Decline Transformed America

by James C. Benton

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 <div>The decline of the U.S. textile and apparel industries between the 1940s and 1970s helped lay the groundwork for the twenty-first century''s potent economic populism in America. James C. Benton looks at how shortsighted trade and economic policy by labor, business, and government undermined an employment sector that once employed millions and supported countless communities. Starting in the 1930s, Benton examines how the New Deal combined promoting trade with weakening worker rights. He then moves to the ineffective attempts to aid textile and apparel workers even as imports surged, the 1974 pivot by policymakers and big business to institute lowered trade barriers, and the deindustrialization and economic devastation that followed. Throughout, Benton provides the often-overlooked views of workers, executives, and federal officials who instituted the United States’ policy framework in the 1930s and guided it through the ensuing decades. Compelling and comprehensive, <i>Fraying Fabric</i> explains what happened to textile and apparel manufacturing and how it played a role in today''s politics of anger.</div>
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Labor Histories - Class, Politics, And The Working-Class Experience

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 Is class outmoded as a basis for understanding labor history? This collection emphatically answers, "No!" These thirteen essays delve into subjects like migrant labor, religion, ethnicity, agricultural history, and gender. Written by former students of preeminent labor figure and historian David Montgomery, the works advance the argument that class remains indispensable to the study of working Americans and their place in the broad drama of our shared national history.
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Barons Of Labor - The San Francisco Building Trades And Union Power In The Progressive Era

by Michael Kazin

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 From the depression of the 1890s through World War I, construction tradesman held an important place in San Francisco's economic, political, and social life. Michael Kazin's award-winning study delves into how the city's Building Trades Council (BTC) created, accumulated, used, and lost their power. He traces the rise of the BTC into a force that helped govern San Francisco, controlled its potential progress, and articulated an ideology that made sense of the changes sweeping the West and the country. Believing themselves the equals of officeholders and corporate managers, these working and retired craftsmen pursued and protected their own power while challenging conservatives and urban elites for the right to govern. What emerges is a long-overdue look at building trades as a force in labor history within the dramatic story of how the city's 25,000 building workers exercised power on the job site and within the halls of government, until the forces of reaction all but destroyed the BTC.
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Working In The Magic City - Moral Economy In Early Twentieth-Century Miami

by Thomas A. Castillo

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 In the early twentieth century, Miami cultivated an image of itself as a destination for leisure and sunshine free from labor strife. Thomas A. Castillo unpacks this idea of class harmony and the language that articulated its presence by delving into the conflicts, repression, and progressive grassroots politics of the time. Castillo pays particular attention to how class and race relations reflected and reinforced the nature of power in Miami. Class harmony argued against the existence of labor conflict, but in reality obscured how workers struggled within the city''s service-oriented seasonal economy. Castillo shows how and why such an ideal thrived in Miami’s atmosphere of growth and boosterism and amidst the political economy of tourism. His analysis also presents class harmony as a theoretical framework that broadens our definitions of class conflict and class consciousness.
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Southern Migrants, Northern Exiles

by Chad Berry

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 Presents a record of ordinary lives, dozens of white southern migrants describing their experiences in the northern wilderness and their irradicable attachments to family and community in the South.
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Gleanings Of Freedom - Free And Slave Labor Along The Mason-Dixon Line, 1790-1860

by Max Grivno

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 Drawing from court records, the diaries, letters, and ledgers of farmers and small planters, and other archival sources, the author reconstructs how these poorest of southerners eked out their livings and struggled to maintain their families and their freedom in the often unforgiving rural economy.
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Child Care In Black And White - Working Parents And The History Of Orphanages

by Jessie B. Ramey

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 Examines the development of institutional childcare from 1878 to 1929, based on a comparison of two "sister" orphanages in Pittsburgh: the all-white United Presbyterian Orphan's Home and the all-black Home for Colored Children.
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A Contest Of Ideas - Capital, Politics And Labor

by Nelson Lichtenstein

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 Offers important perspectives on the relationship of labour and the state.
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Redeeming Time - Protestantism And Chicago'S Eight-Hour Movement, 1866-1912

by William A. Mirola

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 Explores how the city's eight-hour movement intersected with a Protestant religious culture that supported long hours to keep workers from idleness, intemperance, and secular leisure activities.
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The Rise Of The Chicago Police Department - Class And Conflict, 1850-1894

by Sam Mitrani

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 This insightful history uncovers the modern police department's role in reconciling democracy with industrial capitalism.
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A Contest Of Ideas - Capital, Politics And Labor

by Nelson Lichtenstein

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 Offers important perspectives on the relationship of labour and the state.
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Teachers And Reform - Chicago Public Education, 1929-70

by John F. Lyons

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 Measuring the impact of the Chicago Teachers Union on public education in Chicago
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Labor'S Cold War - Local Politics In A Global Context

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 How the Cold War affected local-level union politics
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Duquesne And The Rise Of Steel Unionism

by James D. Rose

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 Focusing on the steel works at Duquesne, Pennsylvania, a linchpin of the old Carnegie Steel Company Empire, and then of US Steel, the author demonstrates the pivotal role played by a nonunion form of employee representation. This is a study of the forces that shaped and responded to workers' interests.
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