The encyclopedia of strikes in American history / Aaron Brenner, Benjamin Day, Immanuel Ness, editors.
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| Language: | English |
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Armonk, N.Y. :
M.E. Sharpe,
[2009], ©2009.
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| Physical Description: | xxxix, 750 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Editors and contributors
- Topic finder
- Introduction to the Encyclopedia of Strikes in American History / Aaron Brenner
- Types of strikes / Aaron Brenner
- List of abbreviations
- Strikes: theory and practice
- Introduction / Aaron Brenner
- Strikes in American history / Aaron Brenner
- Theories of strikes / Gerald Friedman
- Socialist theories of the strike / Christopher Phelps
- The news media and strikes / Christopher R. Martin
- The business community's mercenaries: strikebreakers and union busters / Robert Smith
- Corporate strike strategy / Kim Phillips-Fein
- The decline of strikes / Jeremy Brecher
- Strike lessons from the last twenty-five years: what it takes to walk out and win / Steve Early
- Strikes and working class culture
- Introduction / Benjamin Day
- Dressed for defiance: the clothing of female strikers, 1910-1935 / Deirdre Clemente
- Better than a hundred speeches: the strike song / Tim Lynch
- Rights strikes / Todd Michney
- World War II hate strikes / James Wolfinger
- Polish workers and strikes, 1900-1937 / Jim Pula
- North Carolina women on strike / Roxanne Newton
- The Catholic Church and strikes / Dan LaBotz
- Strikes led by the Trade Union Unity League, 1929-1934 / Victor G. Devinatz.
- Strike waves
- Introduction / Aaron Brenner
- The strike wave of 1877 / John P. Lloyd
- World War I era strikes / Cecelia Bucki
- The rise and fall of the sit-down strike / Rachel Meyer
- The 1945-46 strike wave / Jack Metzgar
- Strikes in the U.S. since World War II / Nicola Pizzolato
- Strikes in the public sector
- Introduction / Immanuel Ness
- Labor and the boston police strike of 1919 / Joseph Slater
- Teachers' strikes / John Lloyd
- Postal workers' strikes / Aaron Brenner
- Strikes in the New York City transit system / Michael Hirsch
- Social workers and strikes / Howard Karger
- Strikes in the private sector
- Introduction / Immanuel Ness
- Manufacturing, mining, and agricultural strikes
- Introduction / Immanuel Ness
- Strikes and apprenticeship / Daniel Jacoby
- Strikes in the 19th-century cotton textile industry in the Northeast United States / Mary Blewett
- Twentieth century textile strikes / David Goldberg
- Garment worker strikes / Paul LeBlanc
- Steel strikes before 1935 / John Hinshaw
- Steel on strike: from 1936 to the present / Robert Bruno
- Unionizing the jungle: a century of meatpacking strikes / Jackie Gabriel
- Automobile workers' strikes / Ian Greer
- Rubber workers' strikes / John Woods
- Plumbing strikes / Kim Phillips-Fein
- Agricultural strikes / Dan La Botz
- Labor and the transformation of the Hawaiian sugar industry / Edward D. Beechert
- The Redwoods Lumber and Sawmill Workers' strike / Cal Winslow
- The Watsonville Cannery strike, 1985-1987 / Myrna Cherkoss Donahoe
- Coal miners on strike and the formation of a national union / Jon Amsden and Stephen Brier
- Mesabi Iron Miners' strikes / Gerald Ronning
- The rise and fall of rank-and-file miner militancy, 1964-2007 / Paul Nyden.
- Infrastructure industry strikes
- Introduction / Benjamin Day
- Labor upheaval on the nation's railroads, 1877-1922 / Theresa Case
- Strikes by telegraph workers / Anthony J. Silva
- Telegraph messenger strikes and their impact on telegraph unionization / Greg Downey
- Trolley wars / Scott Molloy
- Seafarers' strikes in American history / Nathan Lillie
- Longshoremen's strikes, 1900-1920 / Cal Winslow
- Strikes on the port of New York 1945-1960 / William Mello
- Strikes in the U.S. airline industry, 1919-2004 / David J. Walsh
- Aerospace engineer strikes / Stan Sorscher
- Service industry strikes
- Introduction / Benjamin Day
- Newsboy strikes / Jon Bekken
- Retail workers' strikes / Daniel Opler
- Waitress strikes / Dorothy Sue Cobble
- Office workers' strikes / Vernon Mogenson
- Strikes in the motion picture industry / Andrew Dawson
- Attorney strikes at the Legal Aid Society of New York City / Michael Letwin
- Musician strikes / Damone Richardson
- Striking the ivory tower: student employee strikes at private universities / Mandi Isaacs Jackson
- The Boston University strike of 1979 / Gary Zabel
- Strikes by professional athletes / Michael Schiavone
- Nurses on strike / Lisa Hayes
- Organizing home health care workers in New York City / Immanuel Ness
- Bibliography
- Name index
- General subject index.