Battling for American Labor - Wobblies, Craft Workers, and the Making of the Union Movement

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About the author

Howard Kimeldorf is Professor of Sociology at the University of Michigan and author of Reds or Rackets? The Making of Radical and Conservative Unions on the Waterfront (California, 1988).

Summary

This volume answers the baffling question of how, while mounting some of the most aggressive challenges to employing classes anywhere in the world, organized labour in the US has embraced the capitalist system of which they are a part.

Product details

• Authors: Howard Kimeldorf, Kimeldorf Howard
• Assisted by: Howard Kimeldorf (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.12.1999
• EAN: 9780520218338
• ISBN: 978-0-520-21833-8
• No. of pages: 254
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; History, HISTORY / General, HISTORY / United States / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Labor & Industrial Relations, Trade Unions, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, Industrial arbitration and negotiation