The Big Strike (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Mike Quin

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1332104878 ISBN 13 : 9781332104871

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

A defining look at a pivotal maritime strike and the people who shaped it

This book examines the high-stakes struggle that tested unions, courts, and workers on the Pacific Coast in 1934. It follows the clash over hiring halls, arbitration, and the use of strategy committees as the tide of action rolled through cities and dockyards.

• Learn how longshoremen and allied unions navigated arbitration and job action during a coast-wide conflict
• See the inner workings of labor relations committees, hiring halls, and how dispatching decisions were made
• Understand the balance between solidarity, employer power, and political influence during a major labor dispute
• Explore how public opinion, media coverage, and government officials interacted with the strike and its goals

Ideal for readers of labor history, maritime history, and 20th-century American social change, this edition sheds light on the people, rules, and tactics shaping a landmark industrial struggle.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Excerpt from The Big Strike

In San Francisco, July 1934, the laboring population laid down its tools in a General Strike.

An uncanny quiet settled over the acres of buildings. For all practical purposes not a wheel moved nor a lever budged. The din of commercial activity gave way to a murmur of voices in the streets.

Along the Embarcadero and in front of the National Guard Armory self-conscious-looking schoolboys wearing steel helmets and ill-fitting khaki uniforms paced up and down fingering heavy automatic rifles.

Highways leading out of the city bore a continuous stream of expensive cars carrying well-to-do refugees to distant sanctuaries. They were fleeing from bombs and rioting mobs.

There were no bombs.

There were no rioting mobs.

These existed only in the pages of the daily press which characterized the event as a Bolshevik revolution, and conjured up visions of tempestuous throngs sweeping, torch in hand, through the city streets.

Telephone and telegraph wires burned like an inflamed nervous system.

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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1332104878
• ISBN 13: 9781332104871
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 273
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