Weavers of dreams, unite!
Subtitle: actor's unionism in early twentieth-century America
By: Sean P. Holmes
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 222
ISBN-13: 9780252037481; 9780252094682
Subjects: Actors; Theater; Actors' Equity Association; Labor unions; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: weavers of dreams, unite!; title: The great text in our economy today: the American theater in an age of organization; title: The sock and Buskin or the artisan's biretta: reconciling art and labor in the Actors' Equity Association, 1913-1919; title: All the world's a stage: the actors' strike of 1919; title: Protecting the high-minded actor and the high-minded manager in equal part: occupational unionism in the American theater industry, 1919-1929; title: For the dignity and honor of the theatrical profession: respectability and unrespectability in the Actors' Equity Association, 1919-1929; title: Ain't no peace in the family now: the Actors' Equity Association and the movies, 1919-1929; title: Epilogue.