Wolfinger James Running the Rails: Capital and Labor in the Philadelphia Transit Industry 9781501702402

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Автор: Wolfinger James
Название: Running the Rails: Capital and Labor in the Philadelphia Transit Industry
ISBN: 9781501702402
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
Классификация:

История Америк

История 20 века: с 1900 по 2000

Транспортные отрасли промышленности

Производственные отношения

ISBN-10: 1501702408
Обложка/Формат: Hardback
Страницы: 304
Вес: 0.54 кг.
Дата издания: 07.06.2016
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: 16 halftones, black and white
Размер: 234 x 160 x 25
Ключевые слова: History of the Americas,Railway technology, engineering & trades, HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA),POLITICAL SCIENCE / Labor & Industrial Relations,TRANSPORTATION / Railroads / History
Подзаголовок: Capital and labor in the philadelphia transit industry
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Поставляется из: Англии
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Philadelphia exploded in violence in 1910. The general strike that year was a notable point, but not a unique one, in a generations-long history of conflict between the workers and management at one of the nation’s largest privately owned transit systems. In Running the Rails, James Wolfinger uses the history of Philadelphia’s sprawling public transportation system to explore how labor relations shifted from the 1880s to the 1960s. As transit workers adapted to fast-paced technological innovation to keep the city’s people and commerce on the move, management sought to limit its employees’ rights. Raw violence, welfare capitalism, race-baiting, and smear campaigns against unions were among the strategies managers used to control the company’s labor force and enhance corporate profits, often at the expense of the workers’ and the city’s well-being.

Public service workers and their unions come under frequent attack for being a special interest or a hindrance to the smooth functioning of society. This book offers readers a different, historically grounded way of thinking about the people who keep their cities running. Working in public transit is a difficult job now, as it was a century ago. The benefits and decent wages Philadelphia public transit workers secured—advances that were hard-won and well deserved—came as a result of fighting for decades against their exploitation. Given capital’s great power in American society and managements enduring quest to control its workforce, it is remarkable to see how much Philadelphia’s transit workers achieved.

Дополнительное описание:

Capital and the Shifting Nature of Social Control
1. Beginnings
2. Working on the Line
3. Time of Troubles
4. The Age of Thomas Mitten
5. Hard Times and a Hate Strike
6. Labor Relations and Public Relations
7. National City

Running the Rails: Capital and Labor in the Philadelphia Transit Industry, Wolfinger James