The History and Problems of Organized Labor (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Frank Tracy Carlton

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1330508394 ISBN 13 : 9781330508398

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Explore the origins and struggles of organized labor across centuries and industries. This nontechnical history shows how wage earners formed unions, challenged power, and shaped the modern economy.

The book traces how industrial change, the rise of the factory, and new machinery created a distinct line between employers and workers. It also examines the long evolution of labor organizations, negotiation, and conflict, with focus on causes, methods, and outcomes rather than quick fixes.

• Foundational ideas: what a labor organization is, how wage earners relate to production, and why unions emerged.


• Key mechanisms: collective bargaining, arbitration, conciliation, and trade agreements as tools for peace and progress.


• Notable cases and institutions: coal strikes, arbitration commissions, and the role of bodies like the National Civic Federation.


• Broad topics: child labor, immigration, labor legislation, welfare efforts, and evolving public attitudes toward work and capital.

Ideal for readers of history, economics, and labor studies who want a clear, evidence-based overview of how organized labor has shaped society.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

United States, to analyze the chief problems which directly or indirectly affect the labor organizations of the present decade, and to evaluate the functions of organized labor in the industrial (and political world. The history of American labor organizations presents to the observer a rapidly changing and almost bewildering picture of which few careful studies have been made. The government, ideals, practices, solidarity, and inter-relationships of such organizations have experienced, and are at present undergoing, a variety of transformations. It is the purpose of the writer to present to the student of industrial problems and to the general reader a straightforward study of the forces which have caused labor organizations to appear and to assume a variety of forms. The aim is not to justify or to condemn the practices and ideals of organized labor or of employers associations, but to analyze the phenomena of which the practices and ideals are the visible manifestations. Labor organizations, employers associations, strikes, boycotts, the demand for the closed shop, the sweating system, and the ideals and point of view of organized labor or of organized capital are evolved through the play of social forces working within the economic field. The modern labor problem cannot be understood, and certainly cannot be solved, until the underlying causative forces, new and old, physical and social, are laid bare.
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About the Publisher

Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology.

Forgotten Books' Classic Reprint Series utilizes the latest technology to regenerate facsimiles of historically important writings. Careful attention has been made to accurately preserve the original format of each page whilst digitally enhanci

Présentation de l'éditeur

Originally published in 1911. This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies. All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks notations and other marginalia present in the original volume.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1330508394
• ISBN 13: 9781330508398
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 497
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