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Interpreting the Labor Movement

by George W. Brooks, Milton Derber, David A. McCabe, Philip Taft,. 207 pgs.

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Contributors:

   George W. Brooks, Milton Derber, David A. McCabe, Philip Taft,

Publisher:

   Industrial Relations Research Association

Place of Publication:

  Madison, WI  

Publication Year:

  1952
Subjects:   Labor Unions--United States
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1.
Unions before the Bar: Historic Trials Showing the Evolution of Labor Rights in the United States
Book by Elias Lieberman; Harper, 1950
Subjects: Labor Laws And Legislation--United States--Cases, Labor Unions--United States
...BEFORE THE BAR UNIONS BEFORE THE...Evolution of Labor Rights in the United States BY ELIAS...story of a labor case which...rights of unions in the United States. As the cases...1894-1895 UNITED STATES v. DEBS...American labor unions the nation's...
2.
History of the Labor Movement in the United States - Vol. 6
Book by Philip S. Foner; International Publishers, 1947
Subjects: Industrial Relations--United States--History, Labor Movement--United States--History, Labor Unions--United States--History
...1. Trade-unions-- United States--History. 2. Labor and laboring...History of Labor the United States 1896...to trade unions, and on those...peace, the labor unions influence...arose in the United States may be readily...
3.
Friedrich A. Sorge's Labor Movement in the United States: A History of the American Working Class from 1890 to 1896
Book by Kai Schoenhals; Greenwood Press, 1987
Subjects: Labor Disputes--United States--History--19th Century, Labor Unions--United States--History--19th Century, Working Class--United States--History--19th Century
...Includes Index. 1. Labor and laboring classes-- United States-- History--19th century. 2. Labor disputes--United States--History--19th century. 3. Trade-unions-- United States--History--19th century. I. Schoenhals, Kai P. II. Title. III. Title...
4.
History of the Labor Movement in the United States - Vol. 4
Book by Philip S. Foner; International Publishers, 1997
Subjects: Industrial Relations--United States--History, Labor Movement--United States--History, Labor Unions--United States--History
...revolutionary labor movement in the United States was to be based...History of the Labor Movement in the United States , vol. II...distributed to all unions throughout the United States and to many...the Voice of Labor , the Miners...
5.
History of the Labor Movement in the United States - Vol. 10
Book by Philip S. Foner; International Publishers, 1994
Subjects: Labor Movement--United States--History, Labor Unions--United States--History
...1. Trade-unions -- United States -- History. 2. Labor movement...create among unions which adopted...History of the Labor Movement in the United States 9 New...of child labor and to work...of craft unions. It also...that the United States establish...
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1.
Do Unions Matter? an Examination of the Historical and Contemporary Role of Labor Unions in the Social Work Profession
Journal article by Jessica Rosenberg, Samuel Rosenberg; Social Work, Vol. 51, 2006
Subjects: Labor movement--Forecasts and trends, Labor unions--Services, Labor unions--Social aspects, Labor unions--United States, Social case work--History, Social work--History, United States--Social aspects
...of Labor Unions in the Social...The labor movement in the United States is in a state...industrial United States was to survive...of child labor (Karger...movement and unions that flourished...work in the United States. Ithaca...workers and labor unions. Westport...
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Are Labor Unions Consistent with the Assumptions of Perfect Competition?
Journal article by Jack Reardon; Journal of Economic Issues, Vol. 40, 2006
Subjects: Labor unions--Economic aspects, Labor unions--Forecasts and trends, Labor unions--United States
Are Labor Unions Consistent with the...workers organized by a labor union has steadily...climate in which "a united front seeks to impose...monopoly face of labor unions whereby unions are...economic freedom, labor unions enable individuals...
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Union Strength in the United States: Lessons from the UPS Strike
Journal article by Richard Rothstein; International Labour Review, Vol. 136, 1997
Subjects: Courier services--Strikes, International Brotherhood of Teamsters--Strikes, Labor unions--Membership, United Parcel Service of America Inc.--Strikes
...strength of American unions - the explanation...Teamsters, the United States largest trade...Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial...calculate the costs of labor pushing back...to weaken trade unions in the United States continue unabated...
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The Past as Prologue? A Brief History of the Labor Movement in the United States
Journal article by Joseph Adler; Public Personnel Management, Vol. 35, 2006
Subjects: Labor movement--History, Labor movement--Political aspects, Public sector--Labor relations
...History of the Labor Movement in the United States. by...growth of unions in the sector...economy in the United States during the...to create unions that were...National Labor Union (NLU...which set up labor-management...played by unions under Clinton...attack on the United States on September...
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Nurses and Labor Activism in the United States: The Role of Class, Gender, and Ideology
Journal article by Ester C. Apesoa-Varano, Charles S. Varano; Social Justice, Vol. 31, 2004
Subjects: Health care industry--Industry forecasts, Labor activists--Forecasts and trends, Labor leaders--Forecasts and trends, Medical care--Forecasts and trends, Medical care--United States, Nurses--Demonstrations and protests
...throughout the United States. As workers...challenges facing the labor movement in...First, labor unions must address...nurses in the United States and elsewhere...nurses, their labor activism might...medicine, nurses unions may find kindred...
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1.
Reinventing Labor Unions
Magazine article by Jeffrey Epstein; The Futurist, Vol. 32, August 1998
Subjects: Labor unions--Management
...the International Labor Office. Unions must change, the...around them. In the United States, union membership...industrial work, the ILO states in its 1997-1998 International Labor Report (based on...competition by telling unions that labor must...
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Race and Labor Organization in the United States
Magazine article by Michael Goldfield; Monthly Review, Vol. 49, July 1997
Subjects: Economic history--Analysis, Labor movement--Economic policy
...In the United States of America, the fate of labor - its ability...left, that unions will inevitably...mobilization in the United States has ever...revitalized labor movement...left-led unions, see my...International Labor and Working-Class...Abstract of the United States, 1995 (Washington...
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New Dawn for the Workers: Migrant Cleaners at Rich Banks Are Organising for a Living Wage. Paul Mason Says They Should Learn Their Local History; in 1889 a Battle Began in the East End That United Unions around the World and Gave Birth to a New Labour Movement
Magazine article by Paul Mason; New Statesman, Vol. 136, April 16, 2007
Subjects: Labor unions--United States, Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.--Compensation and benefits, Morgan Stanley--Compensation and benefits, Securities industry--Compensation and benefits
...Battle Began in the East End That United Unions around the World and Gave Birth to...1986, when the power of the print unions was broken. In fact, it opens nearly...recruiting unskilled workers whom the unions at the time believed were too ignorant...
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Take It to the Blue States: Maybe Labor Should Give Up on Washington in Favor of Friendlier Terrain
Magazine article by Thomas Geoghegan; The Nation, Vol. 279, November 29, 2004
Subjects: Labor law--Analysis, Labor unions--Analysis, Labor unions--Laws, regulations and rules, Labor unions--United States, Politics--Analysis
...the Blue States: Maybe Labor Should Give...problem is, unions represent...the Blue States"? Use state...little more to labor, since at...Instead of unions that people...the Blue States, we need...new kind of labor. With the...to do what unions used to do...
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Lessons for Labor: What Went Wrong-And Right-For Unions in the Presidential Campaign
Magazine article by David Moberg; The Nation, Vol. 279, December 27, 2004
Subjects: Labor unions--Analysis, Labor unions--United States, Politics--Analysis, Presidential elections--Analysis, Presidents--Analysis, Presidents--Elections
...battleground states, the labor effort was...with more unions working harder...in a key labor stronghold...other groups, unions proved again...battleground states, where labors...corporate power. Unions must work...battleground states showed great...organized labor would be...
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Walgreens Accused of Busting Unions
Newspaper article by Anna Marie Kukec; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), January 12, 2006
Subjects: Drugstores, Labor unions--United States, Walgreen Co.
...lived strike - and new supporter, the United Steelworkers International Union, had an informational picket at a nearby store. The unions continue to seek safer working conditions...included: - With 5,080 drug stores in 45 states and Puerto Rico, Walgreens plans to open...
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Mersey Jobs Are Safe, Say Unions in Vauxhall Scare
Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), January 16, 2006
Subjects: Automobile industry, Chairpersons, General Motors Corp., Labor unions--United States, Transportation equipment industry
Mersey Jobs Are Safe, Say Unions in Vauxhall Scare. Byline: BY GRAHAM DAVIES Daily Post Staff UNION officials at Vauxhalls Ellesmere Port factory last night...
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Court Backs Bush over Labor Unions in Bridge Project
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, July 16, 2002
Subjects: Bush, George
...rejecting a unions constitutional...Court of the United States," Edward C...promote his own labor agenda by overriding...represented the unions, said the order...the National Labor Relations Act...to deal with labor unions. "The case...
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United Union Objects to CEO Pay Plan
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), January 12, 2006
Subjects: Airlines--Compensation and benefits, Bankruptcy, Executive compensation, Executives--Compensation and benefits, Labor unions--United States, United Air Lines Inc.--Compensation and benefits
United Union Objects to CEO Pay Plan. Byline: Kathleen Miller Medill News Service United Airlines Media Relations Director Jean Medina confirmed...guaranteed," Medina said. "It depends upon performance of Uniteds stock." And she said compensation issues are part of a...
5.
Unions Picnic for Labor Day
Newspaper article; The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), September 6, 2005
Subjects: County councils, Labor unions
Unions Picnic for Labor Day. Byline: Jim...and member of the United Food and Commercial...membership in the United States. Even though the economy...OBrien, 13, at the Labor Day picnic at Jasper...is a member of the United Food and Commercial...
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Communist Party , in the United States
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
...the Communist groups in the United States were united as the Communist Party of America...militancy to working through established labor organizations and developing a mass...lessened Communist influence in trade unions. During this period two factions...
2.
Indiana , State, United States
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
...Britain ceded the Old Northwest to the United States. Indiana was still largely unsettled...1890s. Industrialization and the Labor Movement Industrial development...sought to organize through labor unions. Eugene V. Debs , one of the great...
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United States
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
...movement of the United States were focusing...state level. Labor, too, began...business to unions was frequently...beneficial to labor, in the furthering...keep the United States neutral...Taft-Hartley Labor Act (1947...Dewey. The United States in a Divided...
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Minnesota , State, United States
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
...the western part was joined to the United States by the Louisiana Purchase . Further...forces again in 1920 in the Farmer-Labor party , which was dominant in the...Scandinavian descent. In 1919 credit unions, cooperative creameries, grain elevators...
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American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
...AFL-CIO), a federation of autonomous labor unions in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Panama, and U.S. dependencies...formed the Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions in the United States and Canada. In 1886 at another conference...
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