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| Genre/Form: | Biography |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Madison, Charles Allan. American labor leaders. New York, Ungar [1962] (OCoLC)571261149 |
| Material Type: | Biography |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Charles Allan Madison |
| OCLC Number: | 234184 |
| Description: | 506 p. 22 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction: craftsmen into wageworkers -- William H. Silvis: America's first "labor's champion" -- Uriah S. Stephens and Terence V. Powderly: plumed Knights of Labor -- Samuel Gompers: "chief" of the business unionists -- William Green: in Gompers' footsteps -- William L. Hutcheson: boss of the "fighting carpenters" -- John Mitchell and John L. Lewis: The Moses and the Samson of the miners -- Joseph Barondess to David Dubinsky: from the sweatshop to industrial leadership -- Alexander F. Whitney: the railroads and the brotherhoods -- William D. Haywood: the insurgence of the I.W.W. -- Philip Murray: the steel workers and the CIO -- Sidney Hillman: enlightened leader of the Amalgamated -- Walter Reuther: the dynamic democracy of the UAW -- Harry Bridges: the militantly left-wing ILWU -- Labor revisited: trends after 1950. |
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