The CIO Challenge to the AFL - A History of the American Labor Movement

Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-0-674-13150-7
Verlag: Harvard University Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 25, 704 Seiten, Format (B × H): 165 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 1224 g

Reihe: Wertheim Publications in Industrial Relations

The period immediately preceding World War II was probably the most critical in the history of the American labor movement. Prior to 1936, the trade unions were weak, but by 1941 a fundamental change in power relationships enabled them to penetrate the strongholds of American industry—steel and automobiles. The CIO Challenge to the AFL is a three-part study. It discusses the split in the American Federation of Labor and the formation of the Congress of Industrial Organizations; presents eighteen specific industry or union case studies, each an independent essay in economic history; and, finally, analyzes various general aspects of the labor movement.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Galenson, Walter

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein

Über Autor(innen)

Galenson, Walter
Walter Galenson was Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Economics at Cornell University.