Forging a Union of Steel: Philip Murray, SWOC, and the United Steelworkers
Clark, Peter. Ed(S): Clark, Paul F.; Gottlieb, Peter; Kennedy, Donald, Phd
More than any other labor victory of the 1930s, the emergence of the Steel Workers' Organizing Committee symbolized the rise of organized labor to a position of power in the United States. Yet, as the contributors to this volume demonstrate, the unionization of the steel industry, and most notably the role of SWOC and Philip Murray in that process, has received far less attention than it deserves.
Beginning with a discussion of why the unionization of steel has been relatively neglected by labor historians, the contributors to this volume analyze early organizing efforts in steel, the major transformations wrought and ... Read more
Contributors: David Brody, Malvyn Dubovsky, Ronald L. Filippelli, Mark McColloch, Ronald W. Schatz
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This book fills an obvious void and succeeds in ... Read more