Labor in Crisis: The Steel Strike of 1919

by David Brody

Book Overview

Conceived as a prologue to the 1930s industrial-union triumph in steel, Labor in Crisis explains the failure of unionization before the New Deal era and the reasons for mass-production unionism's eventual success.
Widely regarded as a failure, the great 1919 steel strike had both immediate and far-reaching consequences that are important to the history of American labor. It helped end the twelve-hour day, dramatized the issues of the rights to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252013735
• ISBN13: 9780252013737
• Release Date: July 1987
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.0"