Good, reliable, White men
Subtitle: railroad brotherhoods, 1877-1917
By: Paul Michel Taillon.
Series: The working class in American history
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9780252034855; 9780252076787
Subjects: Railroads -- Employees -- Labor unions -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Railroads -- Employees -- Labor unions -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Fraternal organizations -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Fraternal organizations -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Working class -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Working class -- United States -- History -- 19th century; United States -- Economic conditions -- 1865-1918; United States -- Social conditions -- 1865-1918
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Reconsidering the railroad brotherhoods; title: Workplace and household life in the running trades; title: Victorian America and the brotherhoods' fraternal culture; title: Free-labor ideology and labor relations in the Gilded Age; title: The crisis of the 1890s and the reordering of railroad labor relations; title: Progressive Era America and the culture of the new unionism; title: Craft industrialism and the arbitration system; title: Political action, industrial action, and the making of the liberal state.