Battling for American Labor: Wobblies, Craft Workers, and the Making of the Union Movement
Автор:Howard Kimeldorf Год: [не указано] Издание: [не указанo] Страниц: [не указано] ISBN: 0520218337 In this incisive reinterpretation of the history of the American labor movement, Howard Kimeldorf challenges received thinking about rank-and- file workers and the character of their unions. Battling for American Labor answers the baffling question of how, while mounting some of the most aggressive challenges to employing classes anywhere in the world, organized labor in the United States has warmly embraced the capitalist system of which they are a part. Rejecting conventional understandings of American unionism, Kimeldorf argues that what has long been the hallmark of organized labor in the United Statesits distinctive reliance on worker self-organization and direct economic actioncan be seen as a particular kind of syndicalism. Kimeldorf brings this syndicalism to life through two rich and compelling case studies of unionization efforts by Philadelphia longshoremen and New York City culinary workers during the opening decades of the twentieth century. He shows how these...
