Battling for American Labor Wobblies, Craft Workers, and the Making of the Union Movement

Name: Battling for American Labor Wobblies, Craft Workers, and the Making of the Union Movement
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ISBN: 9780520218338

ISBN-10: 0520218337

ISBN-13: 9780520218338

Edition: 1999

Authors: Howard Kimeldorf

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In this incisive reinterpretation of the history of the American labor movement, Howard Kimeldorf challenges received thinking about rank-and-file workers and the character of their unions.Battling for American Laboranswers the baffling question of how, while mounting some of the most aggressive challenges to employing classes anywhere in the world, organized labor in the United States has warmly embraced the capitalist system of which they are a part. Rejecting conventional understandings of American unionism, Kimeldorf argues that what has long been the hallmark of organized labor in the United States--its distinctive reliance on worker self-organization and direct economic action--can be…

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List price: $31.95
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 12/1/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 254
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.902
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Explaining Union Allegiance


Industrial Syndicalism on the Philadelphia Waterfront


Wobblies under Siege


Serving Up Industrial Syndicalism on the Streets of New York


"More Business Sense and Stability than the I.W.W."


Syndicalism, Pure and Simple


Notes


Bibliography


Index