Bloodless Victories: The Rise and Fall of the Open Shop in the Philadelphia Metal Trades, 1890–1940 - Couverture rigide

Harris, Howell John

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0521584353 ISBN 13 : 9780521584357

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2000

Synopsis

This book, first published in 2000, examines how Philadelphia employers helped each other to combat organized labour.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

This book, first published in 2000, examines how a group of manufacturers of metal products - 'everything from buttonhooks to battleships' - in America's third biggest city helped each other to meet the challenges of organized labour (and sometimes an interventionist state) in the half-century between the 'second industrial revolution' and the Second World War. After thirty years of success, the employers were finally overwhelmed by a resurgent labour movement backed by New Deal politicians and administrators. Their story offers the broadest and most detailed account available of the industrial relations problems and policies of small and mid-sized firms in this period. This book analyses labour issues by means of a careful local case study, but its conclusions about the interplay of labour, organized capital, law and the state in determining the fate of workers' rights and employers' interests have broad relevance to the history and politics of twentieth-century industrial relations.

Revue de presse

'... fully deserves the highest recommendation ... excellent text'. Enterprise and Society

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0521584353
• ISBN 13: 9780521584357
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 476
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible