Battling for American Labor: Wobblies, Craft Workers, and the Making of the Union Movement Paperback - 1999
by Howard Kimeldorf
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"This riveting, nuanced book takes seriously the workplace radicalism of many early twentieth century American workers. The restriction of working class militancy to the workplace, it shows, was no mere economism. Organizational rather than psychological in orientation, Battling For American Labor accounts for both the early preference of dockworkers in Philadelphia and hotel and restaurant workers in New York for the IWW rather than the AFL and for the reversal of this choice in the 1920s. In so doing, it points the way to a fresh reading of American labor history."--Ira Katznelson, Columbia University
"Howard Kimeldorf's book, based on sound and solid historical research in archives, newspapers, journals, memoirs and oral histories, argues that workers in the United States, regardless of their precise union affiliation, harbored syndicalist tendencies which manifested themselves in direct action on the job. Because Kimeldorf's book reinterprets much of the history of the labor movement in the United States, it will surely generate much controversy among scholars and capture the attention of readers."--Melvyn Dubofsky, Binghamton University, SUNY
"Howard Kimeldorf's new book is a very exciting accomplishment. This book will surely leave a major imprint on labor history and the sociology of labor. Kimeldorf's focus on repertoires of collective action and practice instead of ideology is a particularly important contribution; one that will force students of labor to rethink many worn-out arguments. After reading Battling For American Labor, one will no longer be able to assume the IWW's defeat was inevitable, or take seriously psychological theories of worker consciousness."--David Wellman, author of The Union Makes Us Strong
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- Title Battling for American Labor: Wobblies, Craft Workers, and the Making of the Union Movement
- Author Howard Kimeldorf
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 254
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of California Press, Berkeley
- Date 1999-12-01
- Features Bibliography, Index
- ISBN 9780520218338 / 0520218337
- Weight 0.85 lbs (0.39 kg)
- Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.59 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 1.50 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Labor unions - United States - History, Labor movement - United States - History
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 99018366
- Dewey Decimal Code 331.880
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