A history of America in ten strikes
By: Erik Loomis
Publisher: The New Press
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 301
ISBN-13: 9781620971611
Subjects: History; Strikes and lockouts; Labor disputes
Description: "...  labor historian Erik Loomis recounts ten critical workers’ strikes in American labor history that everyone needs to know about (and then provides an annotated list of the 150 most important moments in American labor history in the appendix). From the Lowell Mill Girls strike in the 1830s to Justice for Janitors in 1990, these labor uprisings do not just reflect the times in which they occurred, but speak directly to the present moment"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-289) and index.
Table of contents: title: Strikes and American History; title: Lowell Mill Girls and the Development of American Capitalism; title: Slaves on Strike; title: The Eight-Hour-Day Strikes; title: The Anthracite Strike and the Progressive State; title: The Bread and Roses Strike; title: The Flint Sit-Down Strike and the New Deal; title: The Oakland General Strike and Cold War America; title: Lordstown and Workers in a Rebellious Age; title: Air Traffic Controllers and the New Assault on Unions; title: Justice for Janitors and Immigrant Unionism; title: Take Back Power; title: Appendix: 150 Major Events in U.S. Labor History.