American Railroad Labor and the Genesis of the New Deal, 1919-1935 (Working in the Americas)
Автор:Jon R. Huibregtse Год: 2012 Издание: [не указанo] Страниц: 208 ISBN: 0813041694 "Gauges and measures how railroad labor unions emerged from the World War I experience stronger and more vitally interested in improving their members' lives. Captures how well the railroad unions embarked on a path of reforming retirement systems and social security."--Colin J. Davis, University of Alabama, Birmingham"Makes an interesting argument that the leadership of the railroad unions, primarily the operating crafts, were leaders in the development of labor law and social policy that predates the founding of the CIO."--Mark A. Crouch, labor educatorAmerican historians tend to believe that labor activism was moribund in the years between the First World War and the New Deal. Jon Huibregtse challenges this perspective in his examination of the railroad unions of the time, arguing that not only were they active, but that they made a big difference in American Labor practices by helping to set legal precedents.Huibregtse explains how efforts by the Plumb Plan League and the Railroad...
