The American Federation of Labor during World War II
A history of the American Federation of Labor, which played a key role in wartime production and was a major actor in the contentious relationship between the state, organized labor, and the working class in the 1940s.
Tells the story of how longshoremen in South Carolina confronted attempts to wipe out the state's powerful black organization. This book explores a local conflict and in the process exposes the powers that rule the United States and the global economy.
Tells the story of how longshoremen in South Carolina confronted attempts to wipe out the state's powerful black organization. This book explores a local conflict and in the process exposes the powers that rule the United States and the global economy.
Documents organized crime's exploitation of organized labor and the massive federal clean-up effort. This book explains how Cosa Nostra families gained a foothold in the labor movement, and used this power to become part of the political and economic power structure of 20th-century urban America.
The American Federation of Labor during World War II
Challenges us to reconsider the American Federation of Labor (AFL) and its influence on twentieth-century history. This work details the union's contributions to wartime labor relations, its opposition to the open shop movement, divided support for fair employment and equity for women and African American workers, and more.
Telling the story of the relationship between organized crime and organized labor, as well as federal efforts to clean up unions, this book sheds light on the influence of the mafia in American unions, and the efforts of law enforcement to erase the shadow that the mob has left on the labor movement.
Ferdinand Smith and Radical Black Sailors in the United States and Jamai
Gerald Horne draws on the life of Ferdinand Smith, the Jamaican-born co-founder and second-in-command of the National Maritime Union (NMU), to make connections between labor radicalism and the Civil Rights Movement - demonstrating that the gains of the latter were propelled by the former and undermined by anticommunism.
Women and the Left in the Forging of the Auto Workers' Union
This account of the formation of United Auto Workers Union shows how the gains workers made were not easy or inevitable, but required strategic and tactical sophistication as well as concerted action. An oral history is included.
Ask people whether teachers unions are good or bad for education and you are likely to receive a wide variety of opinions. A 1998 Gallup Poll asked whether teachers unions helped, hurt, or made no difference in the quality of education in U.
