American Rubber Workers & Organized Labor, 1900-1941

by Daniel Nelson

Book Overview

In 1900 the manufacture of rubber products in the United States was concentrated in several hundred small plants around New York and Boston that employed low-paid immigrant workers with no intervention from unions. By the mid-1930s, thanks to the automobile and the Depression, production was concentrated in Ohio, the labor force was largely native born and highly paid, and labor organizations had a decisive influence on the industry. Daniel Nelson...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691604797
• ISBN13: 9780691604794
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 354 Pages
• Weight: 1.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.5" x 11.0"