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The book was widely reviewed and praised for unearthing the history of a radical union important in the history of the American labor movement. In Transit is a richly detailed and analytically sophisticated book about a remarkable organization, the Transport Workers Union (TWU), in New York City in the heyday of industrial unionism in the 1930s ...
The tragic event marked a time of rising tensions in Pacific Northwest labor history. 1917 (United States) In "Hitchman Coal and Coke vs. Mitchell", U.S. Supreme Court upholds the legality of yellow-dog contracts. [30] 1917 (United States) Green Corn Rebellion occurred. [30]
However, only one such case, People v. Fisher, also held that a combination for the purpose of raising wages was illegal. Several other cases held that the methods used by the unions, rather than the unions themselves, were illegal. [17] For instance, in People v. Melvin, cordwainers were again convicted of a conspiracy to raise wages.
Labor history is a sub-discipline of social history which specializes on the history of the working classes and the labor movement. Labor historians may concern themselves with issues of gender, race, ethnicity, and other factors besides class but chiefly focus on urban or industrial societies which distinguishes it from rural history .
In 2008 he won the Sol Stetin Award for Labor History from the Sidney Hillman Foundation and a Distinguished Service to Labor and Working-Class History Award from the Labor and Working-Class History Association. Brody is a member of Local 3 (San Francisco Chapter) of the National Writers Union, Local 1981, United Auto Workers, AFL-CIO.
His is a member of the editorial board of Labor History and Review (Journal of the Fernand Braudel Center). Dubofsky is a member of the American Historical Association , the Organization of American Historians , and the New York State Labor History Association (where he was vice president from 1978 to 1979, and president from 1979 to 1980).
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Big Bill Haywood and office workers in the IWW General Office, Chicago, summer 1917. The first meeting to plan the IWW was held in Chicago in 1904. The seven attendees were Clarence Smith and Thomas J. Hagerty of the American Labor Union, George Estes and W. L. Hall of the United Brotherhood of Railway Employees, Isaac Cowan of the U.S. branch of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers, William E ...