Author: H. Wayne Morgan
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 223
ISBN-13: 0393301818
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Traces the history and development of Oklahoma and discusses the state and its people today.
Author: Oklahoma
Publisher: US History Publishers
Published: 1976
Total Pages: 550
ISBN-13: 1603540350
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: United States. Bureau of Mines. Technical Library, Pittsburgh
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Published: 1968
Total Pages: 778
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Natural Resources Development and Production
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Published: 1985
Total Pages: 224
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: James R. Green
Publisher: LSU Press
Published: 1978-07-01
Total Pages: 484
ISBN-13: 9780807107737
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Grass-Roots Socialism answers two of the most intriguing questions in the history of American radicalism: why was the Socialist party stronger in Oklahoma than in any other state, and how was the party able to build powerful organizations in nearby rural southwestern areas? Many of the same grievances that had created a strong Populist movement in the region provided the Socialists with potent political issues—the railroad monopoly, the crop lien system, and political corruption. With these widely felt grievances to build on, the Socialists led the class-conscious farmers and workers to a radicalism that was far in advance of that advocated by the earlier People’s party. Examined in this broadly based study of the movement are popular leaders like Oklahoma’s Oscar Ameringer (“The Mark Twain of American Socialism”), “Red Tom” Hickey of Texas, and Kate Richards O’Hare, who was second only to Eugene Debs as a Socialist orator. Included also is information on the party’s propaganda techniques, especially those used in the lively newspapers which claimed fifty thousand subscribers in the Southwest by 1913, and on the attractive summer camp meetings which drew thousands of poor white tenant farmers to week-long agitation and education sessions.
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Publisher: Best Books on
Published: 1941
Total Pages: 551
ISBN-13: 1623760356
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Stephen H. Norwood
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Published: 2003-04-03
Total Pages: 342
ISBN-13: 0807860468
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is the first systematic study of strikebreaking, intimidation, and anti-unionism in the United States, subjects essential to a full understanding of labor's fortunes in the twentieth century. Paradoxically, the country that pioneered the expansion of civil liberties allowed corporations to assemble private armies to disrupt union organizing, spy on workers, and break strikes. Using a social-historical approach, Stephen Norwood focuses on the mercenaries the corporations enlisted in their anti-union efforts--particularly college students, African American men, the unemployed, and men associated with organized crime. Norwood also considers the paramilitary methods unions developed to counter mercenary violence. The book covers a wide range of industries across much of the country. Norwood explores how the early twentieth-century crisis of masculinity shaped strikebreaking's appeal to elite youth and the media's romanticization of the strikebreaker as a new soldier of fortune. He examines how mining communities' perception of mercenaries as agents of a ribald, sexually unrestrained, new urban culture intensified labor conflict. The book traces the ways in which economic restructuring, as well as shifting attitudes toward masculinity and anger, transformed corporate anti-unionism from World War II to the present.