Purchasing Power: Consumer Organizing, Gender, and the Seattle Labor Movement, 1919-1929Cambridge University Press, 28.01.1994 - 349 Seiten This book analyzes consumer organizing tactics and the decline of the Seattle labor movement in the 1920s, as a case study of the U.S. labor movement in the 1920s. The book examines the transformation of the movement after the famous Seattle General Strike of 1919 by showing that workers organized not only at the point of production, but through politicized consumption as well, employing boycotts, cooperatives, labor-owned businesses, and union label promotion. It pays special attention to the gender dynamics of labor's consumer campaigns, as trade union men sought to persuade their wives to "shop union," and to the racial dynamics of campaigns organized by white workers against Seattle's Japanese-American businesses. |
Inhalt
| 15 | |
| 46 | |
| 66 | |
Counterattack | 91 |
Boycotts | 108 |
Depression | 139 |
Accommodations | 163 |
Harmony | 193 |
Label unionism | 212 |
Conclusion | 244 |
Notes | 252 |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
27 January 29 April activists African-American Anna Louise Strong April Associated Industries August Ault Papers Bon Marche boycott building trades campaign Carpenters Central Labor Council CFPA city's Co-operative consumer consumption cooperatives craft unionism December delegates employers example February Federation of Labor female Folder Food Products Association gender Harry Ault Ibid International January Japanese July June label promotion labor capitalism labor capitalist labor history labor movement laundry Litchman locals M.A. Thesis male metal trades Minutes musicians Musicland November October open shop drive organized labor political postwar production radical rank-and-file reported Revolution in Seattle Seattle AFL movement Seattle Central Labor Seattle General Strike Seattle labor movement Seattle Union Record Seattle workers Seattle's sector September 1919 shipyard solidarity SURW teamsters trade unionists trade unions Typographers union label University of Washington University Press wage Washington Manuscripts Collection William Short wives women working-class workplace WSFL Records WSLN York
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 114 - By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire.
Seite 254 - Roy Rosenzweig, Eight Hours for What We Will: Workers and Leisure in an Industrial City, 1870-1920 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1983...
Seite 255 - Susan Strasser, Never Done: A History of American Housework (New York: Pantheon Books, 1982...
Seite 257 - David R. Roediger, The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class (London: Verso, 1991); Noel Ignatiev, How the Irish Became White...
Seite 278 - I am not a labor leader. I don't want you to follow me or anyone else. If you are looking for a Moses to lead you out of the capitalist wilderness you will stay right where you are. I would not lead you into this promised land if I could, because if I could lead you in, someone else would lead you out.
Seite 300 - Selig Perlman and Philip Taft, History of Labor in the United States, 1896-1932 (New York, 1935), p.
Seite 254 - Boycotting the Politics Factory: Labor Radicalism and the New York City Mayoral Election of 1886...
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