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Author Weir, Robert

Title Workers in America
Published Santa Barbara : ABC-CLIO, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (969 pages)
Contents ""Cover""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""How to Use This Work""; ""Volume 1""; ""Actors and Labor""; ""Adair v. The United States""; ""Adamson Act""; ""Affirmative Action""; ""Agency Fee""; ""Agent Provocateur""; ""Agrarianism""; ""Agricultural Labor Relations Act""; ""Airline Strikes""; ""Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel, and Tin Workers""; ""Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America""; ""American Federation of Government Employees""; ""American Federation of Labor""
""American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations""""American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees""; ""American Federation of Teachers""; ""American Plan""; ""American Railway Union""; ""Anarchism""; ""Anarcho-syndicalism""; ""Anthracite Coal Strike of 1902""; ""A. Philip Randolph Institute""; ""Apprentice""; ""Arbitration/Conciliation/Mediation""; ""Aristocrats of Labor""; ""Artisan Labor""; ""Asian American Labor""; ""Assembly-Line Production""; ""Association of Catholic Trade Unionists""; ""Automation""; ""Bacon's Rebellion""; ""Bagley, Sarah""
""Barry, Leonora Marie""""Battle of Blair Mountain""; ""Bellamy, Edward""; ""Bituminous Coal Strikes of 1974 and 1977-1978""; ""Blacklist""; ""Black Lung Disease and Strike""; ""Blue-Collar Labor""; ""Boston Police Strike of 1919""; ""Boulwarism""; ""Boycott""; ""Braceros""; ""Brewery Workers""; ""Bridges, Harry""; ""Bridgestone-Firestone Strike, 1994�1995""; ""Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers""; ""Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters""; ""Browder, Earl Russell""; ""Buck's Stove & Range Co. v. American Federation of Labor et al""; ""Bumping""; ""Bureau of Labor Statistics""
""Colonial Labor""""Colorado Labor Wars""; ""Colored National Labor Union""; ""Columbine Mine Massacre""; ""Commonwealth v. Hunt""; ""Communism and Unions""; ""Company Town""; ""Company Union""; ""Comparable Worth""; ""Computer Revolution and Organized Labor""; ""Concessions""; ""Congress of Industrial Organizations""; ""Contingency Labor""; ""Contract""; ""Contract Labor""; ""Cooperatives""; ""Copper Miners and Strikes""; ""Corporate Campaign""; ""Cost-of-Living Adjustment""; ""Counterculture and Labor""; ""Cowboys""; ""Coxey's Army""; ""Craft Unionism""; ""Davis-Bacon Act""; ""Deadheading""
Summary This encyclopedia traces the evolution of American workers and labor organizations from pre-Revolutionary America through the present day
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Subject Industrial relations -- United States -- History -- Encyclopedias
Labor laws and legislation -- United States -- History -- Encyclopedias
Labor movement -- United States -- History -- Encyclopedias
Labor -- United States -- History -- Encyclopedias
Working class -- United States -- History -- Encyclopedias
Industrial relations
Labor
Labor laws and legislation
Labor movement
Working class
United States
Genre/Form Encyclopedias
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781598847192
1598847198