The Fall of the House of Labor: The Workplace, the State, and American Labor Activism, 1865–1925 - Softcover

Montgomery, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521379822 ISBN 13: 9780521379823

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1989

Synopsis

By studying the ways in which American industrial workers mobilized concerted action in their own interest, the author focuses on the workplace itself, examining the codes of conduct developed by different types of workers and the connections between their activity at work and their national origins and neighborhood life. David Montgomery, Farnam Professor of History at Yale University since 1979, is the author of Worker's Control in America (CUP, 1979) and is co-editor of the journal International Labor and Working Class History.

About this title

Book Description:

The results of American industrial worker mobilization after the abolition of slavery are traced into the early 20th century in this study of new management styles and expanded union movement.

From the Back Cover:

'This book offers the most sweeping portrait of working-class life yet to emerge from the new labor history. It is a subtle, complex, often brilliant study, which demonstrates how far labor scholarship has moved in a generation.' --Alan Brinkley, New Republic

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0521379822
• ISBN 13: 9780521379823
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 508