06021nam a2200397 a 4500 ebr10373249 CaPaEBR m u cr cn||||||||| 070830s2009 nyua sbe 001 0 eng 2007036072 GBA8A5677 bnb 014708343 Uk 9780765613301 (cloth : alk. paper) 0765613301 (cloth : alk. paper) CaPaEBR CaPaEBR (OCoLC)671568127 n-us--- HD5324 .E39 2009eb 331.892/97303 22 The encyclopedia of strikes in American history [electronic resource] / Aaron Brenner, Benjamin Day, Immanuel Ness, editors. Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, c2009. xxxix, 750 p. : ill. Includes bibliographical references (p. 723-727) and indexes. Editors and contributors -- List of abbreviations -- Topic finder -- Introduction to the Encyclopedia of strikes in American history / Aaron Brenner -- Types of strikes / Aaron Brenner -- Strikes: theory and practice -- Introduction / by Aaron Brenner -- Strikes in American history / Aaron Brenner -- Theories of strikes / Gerald Friedman -- Socialist theories of strikes / Christopher Phelps -- The news media and strikes / Christopher R. Martin -- The business community's mercenaries: strikebreakers and union busters / Robert Smith -- Corporate strike strategy / Kim Phillips-Fein -- The decline of strikes / Jeremy Brecher -- Strike lessons from the last twenty-five years: what it takes to walk out and win / Steve Early -- Strikes and working class culture -- Introduction / by Benjamin Day -- Dressed for defiance: the clothing of female strikers, 1910-1935 / Deirdre Clemente -- Better than a hundred speeches: the strike song / Timothy P. Lynch -- Civil rights strikes / Todd Michney -- World War II hate strikes / James Wolfinger -- Polish workers and strikes, 1900-1937 / James S. Pula -- North Carolina women on strike / Roxanne Newton -- The Catholic Church and strikes / Dan La Botz -- Strikes led by the Trade Union Unity League, 1929-1934 / Victor G. Devinatz. Strike waves -- Introduction / by Aaron Brenner -- The strike wave of 1877 / John P. Lloyd -- World War I era strikes / Cecelia Bucki -- The rise and fall of the sit-down strike / Rachel Meyer -- The 1945-1946 strike wave / Jack Metzgar -- Strikes in the United States since World War II / Nicola Pizzolato -- Public sector strikes -- Introduction / by Immanuel Ness -- Labor and the Boston police strike of 1919 / Joseph Slater -- Teachers' strikes / John P. Lloyd -- Postal workers' strikes / Aaron Brenner -- Three strikes against the New York City transit system / Michael Hirsch -- Social workers and strikes / Howard Karger -- Strikes in the private sector -- Introduction / by Immanuel Ness -- Manufacturing, mining, and agricultural strikes -- Introduction / by Immanuel Ness -- Strikes and apprenticeship in the United States / Daniel Jacoby -- Strikes in the nineteenth-century cotton textile industry in the Northeast United States / Mary H. Blewett -- Twentieth-century textile strikes / David J. Goldberg -- Garment worker strikes / Paul Le Blanc -- Steel strikes before 1935 / John Hinshaw -- Steel on strike: from 1936 to the present / Robert Bruno -- Unionizing the "jungle": a century of meatpacking strikes / Jackie S. Gabriel -- Automobile workers' strikes / Ian Collin Greer -- Rubber workers' strikes / John L. Woods -- Plumbing strikes / Kim Phillips-Fein -- Agricultural strikes / Dan La Botz -- Labor and the transformation of the Hawaiian sugar industry / Edward D. Beechert -- The Redwoods Lumber and Sawmill Workers' strike / Calvin Winslow -- The Watsonville Cannery strike, 1985-1987 / Myrna Cherkoss Donahoe -- Coal miners on strike and the formation of a national union / Jon Amsden and Stephen Brier -- Mesabi Iron Miners' strikes / Gerald Ronning -- The rise and fall of rank-and-file miner militancy, 1964-2007 / Paul J. Nyden. Infrastructure industry strikes -- Introduction / by Benjamin Day -- Labor upheaval on the nation's railroads, 1877-1922 / Theresa Ann Case -- Strikes by telegraph workers / Anthony J. Silva -- Telegraph messenger strikes and their impact on telegraph unionization / Greg Downey -- Trolley wars / Scott Molloy -- Seafarers' strikes in American history / Nathan Lillie -- Longshoremen's strikes, 1900-1920 / Calvin Winslow -- Strikes on the port of New York 1945-1960 / William Mello -- Strikes in the U.S. airline industry, 1919-2004 / David J. Walsh -- Aerospace engineer strikes / Stan Sorscher -- Teamster strikes and organizing, 1934-1964 -- Service industry strikes -- Introduction / by Benjamin Day -- Newsboy strikes / Jon Bekken -- Retail workers' strikes / Daniel J. Opler -- Waitress strikes / Dorothy Sue Cobble -- Office workers' strikes / Vernon Mogensen -- Strikes in the motion picture industry / Andrew Dawson -- Attorney strikes at the Legal Aid Society of New York City / Michael Z. Letwin -- Musician strikes / Damone Richardson -- Striking the ivory tower: student employee strikes at private universities / Mandi Isaacs Jackson -- The Boston University strike of 1979 / Gary Zabel -- Strikes by professional athletes / Michael Schiavone -- Nurses on strike / Lisa Hayes -- Organizing home health care workers in New York City / Immanuel Ness -- Bibliography -- Name index -- General subject index. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. Strikes and lockouts United States Encyclopedias. Electronic books. local Brenner, Aaron. 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