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Title Workers' struggles, past and present : a "Radical America" reader / edited by James Green
Published Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 1983

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 410 pages)
Contents The demand for black labor: historical notes on the political economy of racism -- Four decades of change: black workers in Southern Textiles, 1941-1981 -- The stop watch and the wooden shoe: scientific management and the industrial workers of the world -- "The clerking sisterhood": rationalization and the work culture of saleswomen in American department stores, 1890-1960 -- Sexual harassment at the workplace: historical notes -- "Union fever"; organizing among clerical workers, 1900-1930 -- Organizing the unemployed: the early years of the Great Depression, 1929-1933 -- The possibility of radicalism in the early 1930s: the case of steel -- A. Philip Randolph and the foundations of black American socialism -- Organizing against sexual harassment -- Defending the no-strike pledge: CIO politics during World War II -- Holding the line: Miners' militancy and the strike of 1978
Notes Articles published in the journal from 1967 to 1982
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
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Subject Working class -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Labor unions -- United States -- History -- 20th century
HISTORY -- Social History.
Labor unions
Working class
Arbeiterklasse
Gewerkschaft
Geschichte (1890-1981)
United States
USA
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Green, James R., 1944-2016.
ISBN 9781439917848
1439917841
OTHER TI Radical America