Reds Or Rackets? - The Making of Radical and Conservative Unions on the Waterfront

Informationen zum Autor Howard Kimeldorf is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Michigan. Zusammenfassung Examines the American labor movement from the inside out, as it were, by analyzing the divergent sources of radicalism and conservatism within it. This title focuses on the political contrast between East and West Coast longshoremen from World War I through the early years of the Cold War, when the difference between the two unions was greatest. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface  Acknowledgments  I. Introduction: Workers, Unions, and Politics  2. Social Foundations of Unionism  3. Shipowners Organize  4. The Strategic Pivot  5. Generations in Motion  6. From Hot to Cold War  7. Conclusion: Unions in the Making  Notes  Bibliography  Index

Product details

• Authors: Howard Kimeldorf, Kimeldorf Howard
• Assisted by: Howard Kimeldorf (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.07.1992
• EAN: 9780520078864
• ISBN: 978-0-520-07886-4
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research; USA, SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Labor & Industrial Relations, Social groups, Trade Unions, United States of America, USA, Socialism & left-of-centre democratic ideologies, Left-of-centre democratic ideologies, Conservatism & right-of-centre democratic ideologies, Right-of-centre democratic ideologies, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor / Unions, Social groups, communities and identities