The Making of Telephone Unionism, 1920-1947

by Schacht, John N

First Edition

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New Brunswick, NJ, U.S.A: Rutgers University Press, 1985. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. A history of attempts to organize workers at Bell Telephone; from 1920 to 1935 Bell management nurtured company unions, but following the Wagner Act's ban on such organizations, dozens of telephone labor organizations arose which were nominally independent but continued to be dominated by the company; World War II deprivations pushed telephone workers toward militancy, and in 1947 these labor organizations merged into a centralized, industrially structured national union as they came to realize that labor policy was controlled by AT&T rather than the regional Bell companies (blue cloth with silver lettering; dust jacket has small tear at lower right front corner, otherwise a clean, tight copy)

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