Author : John Hoerr
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 34,50 MB
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0822959666
Centered around mostly ordinary people, Harry, Tom, and Father Rice relates the story of the author’s uncle Harry Davenport, union leader Tom Quinn, and Father Charles Owen Rice to the great conflict between anti-Communist and Communist forces in the American labor movement.
Author : Edward Le Roy Rice
Publisher :
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 10,29 MB
Release : 1911
Category : Actors
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Author : James Young
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 38,88 MB
Release : 2017-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 158367618X
An empowering history told from below, showing that the collective efforts of the many can challenge the supremacy of the few. Erie's two UE locals confronted a daunting array of obstacles: the corporate superpower General Electric; ferocious red-baiting; and later, the debilitating impact of globalization. Yet, by working through and across ethnic, gender, and racial divides, communities of people built a viable working-class base powered by real democracy. While the union's victories could not be sustained completely, the UE is still alive and fighting in Erie. Young provides a testament to this fight, and a reminder to every worker--employed or unemployed; in a union or out--that an injury to one is an injury to all. --From publisher description.
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Page : 542 pages
File Size : 44,48 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Pennsylvania
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Author : Melvyn Dubofsky
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 38,61 MB
Release : 2017-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1118976843
This book, designed to give a survey history of American labor from colonial times to the present, is uniquely well suited to speak to the concerns of today’s teachers and students. As issues of growing inequality, stagnating incomes, declining unionization, and exacerbated job insecurity have increasingly come to define working life over the last 20 years, a new generation of students and teachers is beginning to seek to understand labor and its place and ponder seriously its future in American life. Like its predecessors, this ninth edition of our classic survey of American labor is designed to introduce readers to the subject in an engaging, accessible way.
Author : Paul Le Blanc
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 37,65 MB
Release : 2011-01-26
Category : History
ISBN : 1136852867
Work and Struggle: Voices from U.S. Labor Radicalism focuses on the history of U.S. labor with an emphasis on radical currents, which have been essential elements in the working-class movement from the mid nineteenth century to the late twentieth century. Showcasing some of labor's most important leaders, Work and Struggle offers students and instructors a variety of voices to learn from -- each telling their story through their own words -- through writings, memoirs and speeches, transcribed and introduced here by Paul Le Blanc. This collection of revolutionary voices will inspire anyone interested in the history of labor organizing.
Author : Jefferson Cowie
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 29,91 MB
Release : 2017-04-18
Category : History
ISBN : 069117573X
How the New Deal was a unique historical moment and what this reveals about U.S. politics, economics, and culture Where does the New Deal fit in the big picture of American history? What does it mean for us today? What happened to the economic equality it once engendered? In The Great Exception, Jefferson Cowie provides new answers to these important questions. In the period between the Great Depression and the 1970s, he argues, the United States government achieved a unique level of equality, using its considerable resources on behalf of working Americans in ways that it had not before and has not since. If there is to be a comparable battle for collective economic rights today, Cowie argues, it needs to build on an understanding of the unique political foundation for the New Deal. Anyone who wants to come to terms with the politics of inequality in the United States will need to read The Great Exception.
Author : Gerard F. O'Neil
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 31,50 MB
Release : 2015-08-17
Category : History
ISBN : 1625853882
Presbyterians from the Irish province of Ulster were among the first to push the wild frontier west and found the city of Pittsburgh. By the 1840s, the flow of Irish Catholic immigrants had become a flood. Fleeing the great hunger and facing resentment in the city, they established themselves as key members of the community, building railroads and canals and establishing schools, hospitals and fraternal orders. During the Civil War, 156 women, many of them Irish, made the ultimate sacrifice for their new country when the Allegheny Arsenal exploded. The Fenians fought Southern Rebels under a green flag and made a little-known invasion of Canada in 1866. In the twentieth century, the sons and daughters of Erin took on roles as political leaders, labor agitators and entrepreneurs. Exploring tales of saints, sinners and visionaries, author Gerard F. O'Neil offers a beguiling and fascinating history of the Pittsburgh Irish.
Author : John Hoerr
Publisher : Autumn House Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 14,26 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1932870318
Hoerr's first novel but fourth book paints a vivid portrait of labor relations in industrial McKeesport.
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Page : 506 pages
File Size : 47,67 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Electronic journals
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