Commonwealth of toil : chapters in the history of Massachusetts workers and their unions / Tom Juravich, William F. Hartford, James R. Green.
Material type: TextPublication details: Amherst, Mass. : University of Massachusetts Press, �1996.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 193 pages) : portraitsContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 0585253463
- 9780585253466
- 1122054556
- 9781122054553
- Labor movement -- Massachusetts -- History
- Labor unions -- Massachusetts -- History
- Labor -- Massachusetts -- History
- Working class -- Massachusetts -- History
- Mouvement ouvrier -- Massachusetts -- Histoire
- Syndicats -- Massachusetts -- Histoire
- Travail -- Massachusetts -- Histoire
- Travailleurs -- Massachusetts -- Histoire
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations
- Labor
- Labor movement
- Labor unions
- Working class
- Massachusetts
- Labor & Workers' Economics
- Business & Economics
- 331.88/09744 20
- HD8083.M4 J87 1996eb
Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-183) and index.
Print version record.
Workers in the New Commonwealth, 1800-1849 -- Factory system in Lowell -- Boston bootmakers -- From slavery to freedom, 1850-1865 -- The call for solidarity, 1866-1901 -- The Crispins and the Knights of Labor -- The American Federation of Labor -- Irish immigrants build Holyoke -- Women workers struggle for dignity and equality, 1902-1919 -- The Strike for Bread and Roses in Lawrence -- The women's Trade Union League and the telephone operators -- From raw deal to New deal, 1920-1939 -- The birth of the CIO and the revival of the AFL -- Labor in the Modern Commonwealth, 1940-1955 -- Labor in the War Years -- Boston's packinghouse workers -- New workers, new unions, 1956-1980 -- Public employees organize -- University workers adopt new tactics -- New challenges, new strategies, 1981-1995 -- Protecting health and safety -- Massachusetts building trades fight back.
English.
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