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American Rubber Workers & Organized Labor, 1900-1941 (Hardcover)
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American Rubber Workers & Organized Labor, 1900-1941 (Hardcover)
Series: Princeton Legacy Library
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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 tells the story of these changes as a case study of union
growth against a background of critical developments in
twentieth-century economic life. The author emphasizes the years
after 1910, when a crucial distinction arose between big,
mass-production rubber producers and those that were smaller and
more labor intensive. In the 1930s mass-production workers took the
lead in organizing the labor movement, and they dominated the
international union, the United Rubber Workers, until the end of
the decade. Professor Nelson discusses not only labor's triumph
over adversity but also the problems that occurred with union
victories: the flight of the industry to low-wage communities in
the South and Midwest, internal tensions in the union, and rivalry
with the American Federation of Labor. The experiences of the URW
in the late 1930s foreshadowed the longer-term challenges that the
labor movement has faced in recent decades. Originally published in
1988. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand
technology to again make available previously out-of-print books
from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press.
These editions preserve the original texts of these important books
while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions.
The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase
access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of
books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in
1905.
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