Verwandte Artikel zu Duquesne and the Rise of Steel Unionism (Working Class...

Duquesne and the Rise of Steel Unionism (Working Class in American History) - Hardcover

Rose, James D.

 
9780252026607: Duquesne and the Rise of Steel Unionism (Working Class in American History)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0252026608 ISBN 13: 9780252026607
Verlag: University of Illinois Press, 2001

Inhaltsangabe

Dismissed as a flimsy front for management interests, industrial unions nonetheless carved out a role in the Carnegie Steel Company empire and then at U.S. Steel. James D. Rose examines the pivotal role played by these company-sponsored employee representation plans (ERPs) at the legendary steel works in Duquesne, Pennsylvania.

As Rose reveals, ERPs matured from tools of the company into worker-led organizations that represented the interests of the mills' skilled tradesmen and workers. ERPs and management created a sophisticated bargaining structure. Meanwhile, the independent trade union gave way to the Steel Workers Organizing Committee (SWOC), a professionalized organization that expended huge resources on companywide unionization. Yet even when the SWOC secured a collective bargaining agreement in 1937, it failed to sign up a majority of the Duquesne workforce.

Sophisticated and persuasive, Duquesne and the Rise of Steel Unionism confirms that what people did on the shop floor played a critical role in the course of steel unionism.

Die Inhaltsangabe kann sich auf eine andere Ausgabe dieses Titels beziehen.

Verlag
University of Illinois Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2001
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0252026608
ISBN 13 
9780252026607
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
304
Kontakt zum Hersteller
Mare Nostrum Group B.V.
gpsr@mare-nostrum.co.uk

Doelen 72
Breda
4831 GR
Niederlande