Labor in Crisis: The Steel Strike of 1919 (Critical Periods of History.) - Softcover

Brody, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0252013735 ISBN 13: 9780252013737

Publisher: University of Illinois Press, 1987

Synopsis

Conceived as a prologue to the 1930s industrial-union triumph in steel, Labor in Crisis explains the failure of unionization before the New Deal era and the reasons for mass-production unionism's eventual success.
Widely regarded as a failure, the great 1919 steel strike had both immediate and far-reaching consequences that are important to the history of American labor. It helped end the twelve-hour day, dramatized the issues of the rights to organize and to engage in collective bargaining, and forwarded progress toward the passage of the Wagner Act, which, in turn, helped trigger John L. Lewis's decision to launch the CIO.

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About the Author

David Brody, professor of history at the University of California-Davis, is the author of several books, including Workers in Industrial America: Essays on the Twentieth-Century Struggle, and the editor of The American Labor Movement.
 

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Publication date: 1987
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0252013735
• ISBN 13: 9780252013737
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 218