Duquesne and the Rise of Steel Unionism - Couverture rigide

Rose, James D.

 
9780252026607: Duquesne and the Rise of Steel Unionism
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0252026608 ISBN 13 : 9780252026607
Editeur : University of Illinois Press, 2001

Synopsis

Dismissed as a flimsy front for management interests, industrial unions nonetheless carved out a role in the Carnegie Steel Company empire and then at U.S. Steel. James D. Rose examines the pivotal role played by these company-sponsored employee representation plans (ERPs) at the legendary steel works in Duquesne, Pennsylvania.

As Rose reveals, ERPs matured from tools of the company into worker-led organizations that represented the interests of the mills' skilled tradesmen and workers. ERPs and management created a sophisticated bargaining structure. Meanwhile, the independent trade union gave way to the Steel Workers Organizing Committee (SWOC), a professionalized organization that expended huge resources on companywide unionization. Yet even when the SWOC secured a collective bargaining agreement in 1937, it failed to sign up a majority of the Duquesne workforce.

Sophisticated and persuasive, Duquesne and the Rise of Steel Unionism confirms that what people did on the shop floor played a critical role in the course of steel unionism.

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Éditeur
University of Illinois Press
Date d'édition
2001
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0252026608
ISBN 13 
9780252026607
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
304
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Personne responsable
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