Limit search to available items
Book Cover
E-book
Author Montgomery, David, 1927-2011.

Title The fall of the house of labor : the workplace, the state, and American labor activism, 1865-1925 / David Montgomery
Published Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press : Editions de la Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, 1987

Copies

Description 1 online resource (xii, 494 pages)
Contents The manager's brain under the workman's cap -- The common laborer -- The operative -- The art of cutting metals -- White shirts and superior intelligence -- "Our time ... believes in change" -- Patriots or paupers -- "This great struggle for democracy" -- "A maximum of publicity with a minimum of interference."
Summary Traces the labor movement from the end of the Civil War to the 1920s, and looks at the relationships between workers of different ethnic backgrounds
Analysis United States Working class movements, 1865-1925
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Labor movement -- United States -- History
Labor unions -- United States -- History
Working class -- United States -- History
Labor unions -- United States -- History
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations.
Working class
Labor movement
Labor unions
Arbeiter
Arbeiterbewegung
Gewerkschaft
Working class -- United States.
Travailleurs -- Etats Unis -- Histoire.
Syndicats -- Etats Unis -- Histoire.
Geschichte (1865-1925)
United States
USA
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781139939133
1139939130
9780511936722
0511936729
9780511528774
0511528779