The encyclopedia of strikes in American history
By: Aaron Brenner, Benjamin Day, Immanuel Ness [editors].
Contributors: Brenner, Aaron.; Day, Benjamin, 1979-; Ness, Immanuel.
Publisher: M.E. Sharpe, Inc
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Armonk, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 750
ISBN-13: 9780765613301
Subjects: Strikes and lockouts -- United States -- Encyclopedias
Genres: Encyclopedias
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Editors and contributors; title: Topic finder; title: Introduction to the Encyclopedia of Strikes in American History / Aaron Brenner; title: Types of strikes / Aaron Brenner; title: List of abbreviations; title: Strikes: theory and practice; title: Introduction / Aaron Brenner; title: Strikes in American history / Aaron Brenner; title: Theories of strikes / Gerald Friedman; title: Socialist theories of the strike / Christopher Phelps; title: The news media and strikes / Christopher R. Martin; title: The business community's mercenaries: strikebreakers and union busters / Robert Smith; title: Corporate strike strategy / Kim Phillips-Fein; title: The decline of strikes / Jeremy Brecher; title: Strike lessons from the last twenty-five years: what it takes to walk out and win / Steve Early; title: Strikes and working class culture; title: Introduction / Benjamin Day; title: Dressed for defiance: the clothing of female strikers, 1910-1935 / Deirdre Clemente; title: Better than a hundred speeches: the strike song / Tim Lynch; title: Rights strikes / Todd Michney; title: World War II hate strikes / James Wolfinger; title: Polish workers and strikes, 1900-1937 / Jim Pula; title: North Carolina women on strike / Roxanne Newton; title: The Catholic Church and strikes / Dan LaBotz; title: Strikes led by the Trade Union Unity League, 1929-1934 / Victor G. Devinatz.; title: Strike waves; title: Introduction / Aaron Brenner; title: The strike wave of 1877 / John P. Lloyd; title: World War I era strikes / Cecelia Bucki; title: The rise and fall of the sit-down strike / Rachel Meyer; title: The 1945-46 strike wave / Jack Metzgar; title: Strikes in the U.S. since World War II / Nicola Pizzolato; title: Strikes in the public sector; title: Introduction / Immanuel Ness; title: Labor and the boston police strike of 1919 / Joseph Slater; title: Teachers' strikes / John Lloyd; title: Postal workers' strikes / Aaron Brenner; title: Strikes in the New York City transit system / Michael Hirsch; title: Social workers and strikes / Howard Karger; title: Strikes in the private sector; title: Introduction / Immanuel Ness; title: Manufacturing, mining, and agricultural strikes; title: Introduction / Immanuel Ness; title: Strikes and apprenticeship / Daniel Jacoby; title: Strikes in the 19th-century cotton textile industry in the Northeast United States / Mary Blewett; title: Twentieth century textile strikes / David Goldberg; title: Garment worker strikes / Paul LeBlanc; title: Steel strikes before 1935 / John Hinshaw; title: Steel on strike: from 1936 to the present / Robert Bruno; title: Unionizing the jungle: a century of meatpacking strikes / Jackie Gabriel; title: Automobile workers' strikes / Ian Greer; title: Rubber workers' strikes / John Woods; title: Plumbing strikes / Kim Phillips-Fein; title: Agricultural strikes / Dan La Botz; title: Labor and the transformation of the Hawaiian sugar industry / Edward D. Beechert; title: The Redwoods Lumber and Sawmill Workers' strike / Cal Winslow; title: The Watsonville Cannery strike, 1985-1987 / Myrna Cherkoss Donahoe; title: Coal miners on strike and the formation of a national union / Jon Amsden and Stephen Brier; title: Mesabi Iron Miners' strikes / Gerald Ronning; title: The rise and fall of rank-and-file miner militancy, 1964-2007 / Paul Nyden.; title: Infrastructure industry strikes; title: Introduction / Benjamin Day; title: Labor upheaval on the nation's railroads, 1877-1922 / Theresa Case; title: Strikes by telegraph workers / Anthony J. Silva; title: Telegraph messenger strikes and their impact on telegraph unionization / Greg Downey; title: Trolley wars / Scott Molloy; title: Seafarers' strikes in American history / Nathan Lillie; title: Longshoremen's strikes, 1900-1920 / Cal Winslow; title: Strikes on the port of New York 1945-1960 / William Mello; title: Strikes in the U.S. airline industry, 1919-2004 / David J. Walsh; title: Aerospace engineer strikes / Stan Sorscher; title: Service industry strikes; title: Introduction / Benjamin Day; title: Newsboy strikes / Jon Bekken; title: Retail workers' strikes / Daniel Opler; title: Waitress strikes / Dorothy Sue Cobble; title: Office workers' strikes / Vernon Mogenson; title: Strikes in the motion picture industry / Andrew Dawson; title: Attorney strikes at the Legal Aid Society of New York City / Michael Letwin; title: Musician strikes / Damone Richardson; title: Striking the ivory tower: student employee strikes at private universities / Mandi Isaacs Jackson; title: The Boston University strike of 1979 / Gary Zabel; title: Strikes by professional athletes / Michael Schiavone; title: Nurses on strike / Lisa Hayes; title: Organizing home health care workers in New York City / Immanuel Ness; title: Bibliography; title: Name index; title: General subject index.