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Culture Of Misfortucb - Culture Of Misfortucb - 9780801438530 - V9780801438530
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Culture Of Misfortucb

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Description for Culture Of Misfortucb Series: Cornell Studies in Industrial & Labor Relations. Num Pages: 352 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; KNXB2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 26. Weight in Grams: 742.

The failure of the Textile Workers Union of America to organize its jurisdiction has often been considered the CIO's most critical setback in establishing industrial unionism in the United States. The textile industry had more than 1,250,000 workers, and the massive organizing campaign the CIO launched in 1937 resulted in perhaps the longest, most bitter, and most significant labor-capital clash of the century.

In Culture of Misfortune, Clete Daniel integrates many primary sources, including extensive archival records and numerous oral interviews, into his examination of this conflict. He pays close attention to the internal political culture of the TWUA and ... Read more

Daniel explains the inability of the TWUA to match the achievements of CIO unions in other mass-production industries through an analysis both of the internal dynamics of the organization and of the external political, social, and cultural impediments it confronted. He suggests that the multiplying difficulties that beset the TWUA predicted the challenges faced by all industrial unions in the last decades of the twentieth century.

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Product Details

Publisher
New York
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Series
Cornell Studies in Industrial & Labor Relations
Number of Pages
352
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780801438530
SKU
V9780801438530
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99-1

About Culture Of Misfortucb
Clete Daniel is Professor of American Labor History in the New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University. He is the author of Chicano Workers and the Politics of Fairness, Bitter Harvest: A History of California Farmworkers, 1870-1941, and The ACLU and the Wagner Act.

Reviews for Culture Of Misfortucb
The major thrust of the text and its contribution to theory is in reminding us that the frailties of union leadership in changing contexts can provide a rich understanding of an organisation.... It is, however, the focus on the character of union leadership and their actions within a particular social context that ensures the contribution of this text.
Martin ... Read more

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