Storch Working Hard for the American Dream

Workers and Their Unions, World War I to the Present
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-118-54141-8
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 304 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: The American History Series

Working Hard for the American Dream examines the variouseconomic, social, and political developments that shaped laborhistory in the United States from World War I until the presentday.
* Presents an overview of labor history that also considers womenworkers, ethnic America, and post-World War II workers
* Incorporates the most recent scholarship in labor history
* Takes the story of labor up to the present day in a readableand accessible manner

Autoren/Hrsg.

Storch, Randi

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations vii
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: Back to the Future 1
1 "Everyone Was Ready For Unionism": ThePrecursors, Promises, and Pitfalls of Industrial Unions in the1930s 10
Political Prelude: Industrial Democracy Betrayed, from Wilson toHoover 12
Corporate Prelude: The Unintended Consequences of 1920sCorporate Policies 25
Working-Class Prelude: Activism 32
A New Deal for Workers: A Failed and Flawed Start 41
Fighting for Unionism in the 1930s Without Meaningful FederalProtection 44
The Wagner Act and Industrial Unionism 48
Corporate Resistance and Workers' Unity 58
Extending the New Deal for Workers 61
Assessing Workers' New Deal and Industrial Unionism 65
Conclusion 68
2 Big Wars, Big Labor, Big Costs 70
Wartime Mobilization, 1939-1941 73
Government Intervention: War Industries and Labor Policies,1941-1945 87
Wartime Demographic Developments 93
Crisis in Industrial Relations, 1945-1946 103
Postwar Politics and Taft-Hartley, 1946-1948 108
Political (Mis)calculations: Operation Dixie, CIO Purges, andInternational Alliances, 1946-1950s 114
Big Labor, Big Costs, 1955-1960s 120
Conclusion 127
3 Civil Rights Versus Labor Rights, 1960s-1970s128
Expanding Public and Service Sectors 131
Public Sector Workers and Union Rights 133
New Laws and Workplace Challenges 141
Women and Workplace Rights 151
The Push and Pull of Changing Times: New Unionists,Rank-and-File Movements, AFL-CIO Leaders, and Nixon 157
Unionists Divided and Under Siege 169
Conclusion 172
4 Working More for Less and Other Troubles for Workers in theLate Twentieth Century 174
Profit Making in a Global World 176
The Human Price of Modern Capitalism 182
The Political Shaping of the Economy 189
The AFL-CIO Leadership's Resistance to Change 199
Innovation and Possibilities 205
Change from the Bottom-Up 216
Conclusion 222
Epilogue: The Illusive American Dream: A Personal Journey224
Bibliographical Essay 253
Index 278

Über Autor(innen)

Randi Storch is Professor of History at the State University of New York, College at Cortland. She is author of Red Chicago: American Communism at Its Grassroots, 1928-1935 (2007).