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Railroad Brotherhoods, 1877-1917
  • ISBN-13: 9780252076787
  • Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
    Imprint: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
  • By Paul Michel Taillon
  • Price: AUD $58.99
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  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 16/04/2009
  • Format: Paperback (229.00mm X 152.00mm) 296 pages Weight: 460g
  • Categories: History of the Americas [HBJK]
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This engaging study provides an account of the independent railroad brotherhoods from the period of their formation in the 1860s and '70s to the consolidation of their power on the eve of World War I. By commanding the attention of U.S. presidents and establishing the eight-hour workday, railroad brotherhoods employed responsible trade unionism to their advantage. Paul Michel Taillon focuses on the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, the Order of Railway Conductors, the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen, and the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen to investigate the impact of these unions on early twentieth-century politics and society. Notorious for their conservative bent and exclusiveness based on race and trade, the unions also demonstrated a capacity for change and a particular acumen for negotiating in political and public circles, all but guaranteeing brotherhood survival. In highlighting the successes and failures of these railroad unions, Taillon shows how they employed capitalist principles; how they were influenced by considerations of gender, race, and class; and how they prompted momentous debates about the proper relationships among government, private enterprise, labor, and management.
Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; Introduction: Reconsidering the Railroad Brotherhoods; Chapter 1. Workplace and Household Life in the Running Trades; Chapter 2. Victorian America and the Brotherhoods' Fraternal Culture; Chapter 3. Free-Labor Ideology and Labor Relations in the Gilded Age; Chapter 4. The Crisis of the 1890s and the Reordering of Railroad Labor Relations; Chapter 5. Progressive Era America and the Culture of the New Unionism; Chapter 6. Craft Industrialism and the Arbitration System; Chapter 7. Political Action, Industrial Action and the Making of the Liberal State; Conclusion; Notes; Index

''A well-document, lucid account of railway labor organizations during a crucial period. . . . Highly recommended.''--''Choice''

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