| Bloodless Victories: The Rise and Fall of the Open Shop in the Philadelphia Metal Trades, 1890 1940 Contributor(s): Harris, Howell John (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521028396 ISBN-13: 9780521028394 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $42.74 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2006 Annotation: This book examines how a group of manufacturers of metal products in America's third largest city helped each other to meet the challenges of organized labor (and sometimes an interventionist state) in the half-century between the "second industrial revolution" and the Second World War. It analyzes labor issues by means of a careful local case study, but its conclusions about the interplay of labor, organized capital, law, and the state in determining the fate of workers' rights and employers' interests have broad relevance to the history and politics of twentieth-century industrial relations. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - State & Local - Middle Atlantic (dc, De, Md, Nj, Ny, Pa) - Political Science | Labor & Industrial Relations - Business & Economics | Economic History |
| Dewey: 331.881 |
| LCCN: 2007274075 |
| Physical Information: 1.06" H x 6" W x 9" (1.53 lbs) 476 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Mid-Atlantic - Geographic Orientation - Pennsylvania - Locality - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - Chronological Period - 1851-1899 - Chronological Period - 1900-1949 |
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| Publisher Description: This book examines how a group of manufacturers of metal products in America's third largest city helped each other to meet the challenges of organized labor (and sometimes an interventionist state) in the half-century between the second industrial revolution and the Second World War. It analyzes labor issues by means of a careful local case study, but its conclusions about the interplay of labor, organized capital, law, and the state in determining the fate of workers' rights and employers' interests have broad relevance to the history and politics of twentieth-century industrial relations. |