Author: Greg Patmore
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: 2016-03-31
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 1781384312
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The book aims to understand work participation in the workplace or worker voice by examining the inter-war experience in Australia, Canada, Germany, the UK and the US.
Author: Samuel Gompers
Publisher:
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 712
ISBN-13: 9780252033896
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Fighting to preserve labor's place in America after World War I
Author: Philip Sheldon Foner
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHERS CO
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780717806522
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Labor and the Red Scare; Seattle and Winnipeg general strikes; Boston telephone and police strikes; Streetcar strikes in Chicago, Denver, Knoxville, Kansas City; strikes in clothing, textile, coal and steel; The open-shop drive; Strikes and Black-white relationships; the AFL and the Black worker; the IWW; Communist Party founded; Political action 1918-1920.
Author: Gordon J. Goldberg
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2013-01-30
Total Pages: 329
ISBN-13: 1476600503
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Meyer London (1871-1926), a Russian Jewish immigrant, settled in New York's Lower East Side in 1891. He became a lawyer, labor activist, founding member of the Socialist Party of America, and a three term Congressman who advocated peaceful methods and refused to take rigid doctrinal positions. Elected to Congress in 1914 as the lone Socialist, he demonstrated political skill and courage. London urged unemployment, health and old age insurance, and fought attempts to restrict immigration. At the outbreak of World War I, he urged strict neutrality, but once the U.S. intervened, London supported the war. In 1918, a fusion candidate defeated London, questioning his "Americanism." He returned to Congress in 1920, where in the face of the pro-business Harding Administration he continued to fight for economic and social justice. His untimely death in 1926 caused shock waves among his fellow Lower East Siders for whom the beloved London had become a folk hero. This detailed political biography closely follows London's career, the opposition he faced in politics, and the principled if controversial stands he maintained throughout his life.
Author: Harvey Levenstein
Publisher: Praeger
Published: 1971-10-29
Total Pages: 282
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Alan Derickson
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 2005-02-09
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9780801880810
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This provocative work explores the invention and reinvention of a fundamental goal of American social policy—universal health care. In Health Security for All, Alan Derickson examines the emergence of diverse proposals for all-encompassing health reform since the early twentieth century. This study discovers not only a number of imaginative arguments for extending health services but also an unexpectedly wide array of passionate advocates for universalism. An innovative approach to one of the great unresolved social and political problems of our time, Health Security for All will be of interest to social scientists, health policy scholars, historians, and idealists across the political spectrum.
Author: Markku Ruotsila
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2023-05-09
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 1000938689
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This work examines in a comparative historical way the socialist, liberal and conservative strands of Anglo-American anticommunist thought before the Cold War. In so doing, this book provides us with an intellectual pre-history of Cold War attitudes and policy positions.
Author: Dana Frank
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1994-01-28
Total Pages: 386
ISBN-13: 9780521467148
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Analyzing consumer organizing tactics and the decline of the Seattle movement as a case study of the U.S. labor movement, this work traces its transformation after the famous Seattle General Strike of 1919, paying special attention to the gender dynamics of labor's consumer campaigns.