Power at Odds

The 1922 National Railroad Shopmen's Strike

Author: Colin John Davis
ISBN: 025206612X

During the tumultuous era of World War I and the years immediately following, the leadership of the United States had shifted from Wilson to Harding and the mood of the nation from pro-labor to pro-business. Colin Davis introduces readers to the 400,000 railroad shopmen and their working world and to the national government's dynamic influence on labor from 1917 to 1922. Davis's study provides a much-needed synthesis of shifting power relations among labor, capital, and the state, as well as a cogent interpretation of union structural experimentation and failure. It will be of interest to social, political, business, legal, and labor historians.

Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Publish Date: 1997

Subjects: Political Science / Labor & Industrial Relations

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