Opis: Triangle Fire the Protocols of Peace - Richard A. Greenwald, Greenwald

America searched for an answer to "The Labor Question" during the Progressive Era in an effort to avoid the unrest and violence that were the rule in the early 20th Century. In the ladies' garment industry, an experiment in industrial democracy brought together labor, management the public. Led by Louis Brandeis, a group of industrial democrats sought to solve the labor problem through a labor agreement, the Protocols of Peace. In the midst of this experiment, 146 mostly young, immigrant women died in the Triangle Factory Fire of 1911. As a result of the Fire, New York's Factory Investigating Commission, lead by Robert Wagner and Al Smith, created one of the largest reform successes of the period. These two events have too often been studied as separate, unconnected episodes. But both events were connected by a developing ideology called industrial democracy, which sought to solve the labor problems facing America. "Greenwald offers a fresh approach to this oft-traveled terrain..[He] meticulously details the many semantic and political shifts that characterized [the protocols].highly recommended." WorkingUSA "The Triangle Fire, the Protocols of Peace, and Industrial Democracy in Progressive Era New York is packed with interesting historical facts, based on the author's examination of an impressive volume of primary and secondary resources." Jonathan Cutler, author of Labor's Time: Shorter Hours, the UAW, and the Struggle for American Unionism "Greenwald's study of industrial democracy is still an ambitious effort that offers new insight into industrial relations in the Progressive era and suggests the ambiguous legacy of workplace reform for both the agency of workers and the possibility for genuine industrial democracy." The American Historical Review "Greenwald offers a detailed, well-researched account that eschews simple characterizations...Greenwald's monograph makes an important contribution to the historiography of the Progressive Era...This fine case study offers thought-provoking insights into the intersection of work, class, gender, urban politics, and reform. At minimum, it should be of interest to urban, gender, business, labor and Progressive Era historians as well as to scholars of industrial relations and labor studies." H-Net "Greenwald offers a highly readable, albeit detailed, account of an important era in labor and industrial relations history. In it readers will notice similarities to contemporary union concerns: tensions between rank and file activism and bureaucratic structuring in both unions and industrial relations, the challenges of organizing an entire industry, the limits to state labor reform, and the fragility of political alliances...Careful readers will see the relevance in high relief." Labor Studies Journal

Szczegóły: Triangle Fire the Protocols of Peace - Richard A. Greenwald, Greenwald

Tytuł: Triangle Fire the Protocols of Peace
Autor: Richard A. Greenwald, Greenwald
Producent: Temple University Press
ISBN: 9781592131754
Rok produkcji: 2005
Ilość stron: 320
Oprawa: Miękka
Waga: 0.46 kg

Recenzje: Triangle Fire the Protocols of Peace - Richard A. Greenwald, Greenwald