| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
Routledge reference library of social science ; v. 955. Labor in America ; v. 2 |
|
Routledge reference library of social science ; v. 955
|
|
Routledge reference library of social science. Labor in America ; v. 2
|
| Contents |
Success and the travelers insurance woman, 1920-1950 / Tracey M. Wilson -- Behind the scenes in the big store : reassessing women's employment in American department stores, 1870-1920 / Sarah S. Malino -- The world our mothers made : Southern Italian and Eastern European immigrants in industrial Connecticut, 1890-1940 / Laura Anker -- Sport, domestic strength, and national security / Monys Hagen -- Social lodges and fraternal associations and the maintenance of urban community / Milton Cantor -- Education and the nineteenth-century working class / Milton Cantor -- Foreign pioneers : immigrants and the mechanized factory system in antebellum New England / David A. Zonderman -- "A larger battle" : Lawrence and the 1912 New England mill strikes / Dexter Arnold -- Immigrant workers and labor organizations, 1912-1926 : Lawrence, Massachusetts and Passaic, New Jersey / David J. Goldberg -- We exploit tools, not men : the speed-up and militance at General Motors, 1930-1941 / Doug Reynolds |
| Summary |
The essays in this volume focus on the role of women in the work force. They explore how organized sports, social associations of all kinds and the educational system faced by the children of worker were profoundly linked to work place and community activism. They examine why radical labor organizations that could win major strikes often could not sustain themselves as permanent institutions. Finally, the essays argue that simultaneous leadership changes in management and labor in the auto industry were less the result of internal conflicts than needed structural adjustments to changing econo |
| Analysis |
Employment History |
|
United States |
| Notes |
Title from PDF title page (viewed on June 27, 2013) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Labor -- United States -- History -- Congresses
|
|
Labor movement -- United States -- History -- Congresses
|
|
Working class -- Recreation -- United States -- History -- Congresses
|
|
Popular culture -- United States -- History -- Congresses
|
|
Women -- Employment -- United States -- History -- Congresses
|
|
Working class -- United States -- Recreation -- History -- Congresses
|
|
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
|
|
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
|
|
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
|
|
Labor
|
|
Labor movement
|
|
Popular culture
|
|
Women -- Employment
|
|
Working class -- Recreation
|
|
Arbeiter
|
|
Aufsatzsammlung
|
|
Arbeiterbewegung
|
|
Arbeiterkultur
|
|
United States
|
|
USA
|
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
|
|
Conference papers and proceedings
|
|
History
|
| Form |
Electronic book
|
| Author |
Blatt, Martin Henry, 1951-
|
|
Norkunas, Martha K.
|
| ISBN |
9781136514975 |
|
113651497X |
|
