Duquesne and the Rise of Steel Unionism - Rilegato

Rose, James D.

 
9780252026607: Duquesne and the Rise of Steel Unionism
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ISBN 10: 0252026608 ISBN 13: 9780252026607
Casa editrice: Univ of Illinois Pr, 2001

Sinossi

Dismissed as a flimsy front for management interests, industrial unions nonetheless carved out a role in the Carnegie Steel Company empire and then at U.S. Steel. James D. Rose examines the pivotal role played by these company-sponsored employee representation plans (ERPs) at the legendary steel works in Duquesne, Pennsylvania. 

As Rose reveals, ERPs matured from tools of the company into worker-led organizations that represented the interests of the mills' skilled tradesmen and workers. ERPs and management created a sophisticated bargaining structure. Meanwhile, the independent trade union gave way to the Steel Workers Organizing Committee (SWOC), a professionalized organization that expended huge resources on companywide unionization. Yet even when the SWOC secured a collective bargaining agreement in 1937, it failed to sign up a majority of the Duquesne workforce. 

Sophisticated and persuasive, Duquesne and the Rise of Steel Unionism confirms that what people did on the shop floor played a critical role in the course of steel unionism.

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Editore
Univ of Illinois Pr
Data di pubblicazione
2001
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0252026608
ISBN 13 
9780252026607
Rilegatura
Copertina rigida
Numero di pagine
284
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