Power at odds
Subtitle: the 1922 National Railroad Shopmen's Strike
By: Colin J. Davis.
Series: The working class in American history
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
Subjects: National Railroad Shopmen's Strike, U.S., 1922
Description: During the tumultuous era of World War I and the years immediately following, the leadership of the United States had shifted from Wilson to Harding and the mood of the nation from pro-labor to pro-business. Colin Davis introduces readers to the 400,000 railroad shopmen and their working world and to the national government's dynamic influence on labor from 1917 to 1922.

Davis's study provides a much-needed synthesis of shifting power relations among labor, capital, and the state, as well as a cogent interpretation of union structural experimentation and failure. It will be of interest to social, political, business, legal, and labor historians.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The railroad industry and workforce; title: Organization; title: Retrenchment, 1920-22; title: The strike begins; title: Government compulsion and violence; title: The harding state; title: Crisis; title: Expediency; title: Disintegration.