Last Great Strike

Little Steel, the CIO, and the Struggle for Labor Rights in New Deal America

Szerző: Ahmed White

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Kötés: Kemény kötésű

Kiadó: University of California Press

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In May 1937, seventy thousand workers walked off their jobs at four large steel companies known coll...

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Szerző

Ahmed White

Nyelv

Angol

Kötés

Könyv - Kemény kötésű

Kiadva

2015

oldal

416

EAN

9780520285606

ISBN

0520285603

Enbook ID

09284270

Kiadó

University of California Press

Súly

680

Méretek

152 x 229 x 30

Teljes leírás

In May 1937, seventy thousand workers walked off their jobs at four large steel companies known collectively as Little Steel. The strikers sought to make the companies retreat from decades of anti union repression, abide by the newly enacted federal labor law, and recognize their union. For two months a grinding struggle ensued, punctuated by bloody clashes in which police, company agents, and National Guardsmen ruthlessly beat and shot unionists. At least sixteen died and hundreds more were injured before the strike ended in failure. The violence and brutality of the Little Steel Strike became legendary. It was in many ways the last great strike in modern America. Traditionally the Little Steel Strike has been understood as a modest setback at most for steelworkers, one that actually confirmed the potency of New Deal reforms and did little to impede the progress of the labor movement. However, The Last Great Strike tells a different story about the conflict and its significance for unions and labor rights. More than any other strike, it laid bare the contradictions of the industrial labor movement, the resilience of corporate power, and the limits of New Deal liberalism at a crucial time in American history.

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Little Steel, the CIO, and the Struggle for Labor Rights in New Deal America

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