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The Labor Movement in Wisconsin

Author : Robert W. Ozanne

Publisher : Wisconsin Historical Society Press

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 34,37 MB

Release : 2011-05-05

Category : History

ISBN : 9780870204951

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Book Description

Wisconsin’s workers and their leaders have always been in the vanguard of those concerned with social justice, fair labor practices, humane working conditions, and political equality. Professor Ozanne’s book, based upon years of research in newspapers, manuscripts, and the archives of both labor and management, provides a broad overview of an important chapter in Wisconsin history.





Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men

Author : Eric Foner

Publisher : OUP USA

Page : 400 pages

File Size : 22,44 MB

Release : 1995-04-20

Category : History

ISBN : 0195094972

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Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men has been recognized as a classic, an indispensable contribution to our understanding of the causes of the American Civil War. A key work in establishing political ideology as a major concern of modern Americanhistorians, it remains the only full-scale evaluation of the ideas of the early Republican party. modern American historical writing.









Steelmasters and Labor Reform, 1886-1923

Author : Gerald G. Eggert

Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre

Page : 231 pages

File Size : 17,27 MB

Release : 2010-11-23

Category : History

ISBN : 0822976978

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Gerald G. Eggert provides a fascinating inside view of top steel officials arguing their positions on various labor reforms—stock purchase plans, employer liability, employee representation, and elimination of the twelve-hour shift and seven-day work week, during the late eighteen and early nineteenth century.



WCFL, Chicago's Voice of Labor, 1926-78

Author : Nathan Godfried

Publisher : University of Illinois Press

Page : 428 pages

File Size : 14,38 MB

Release : 1997

Category : History

ISBN : 9780252065927

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Chicago radio station WCFL was the first and longest surviving labor radio station in the nation, beginning in 1926 as a listener-supported station owned and operated by the Chicago Federation of Labor and lasting more than fifty years.