Bloodless Victories: The Rise and Fall of the Open Shop in the Philadelphia Metal Trades, 1890 1940 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521028394)

This book examines how a group of manufacturers of metal products in America's third largest city helped each other to meet the challenges of organized labor (and sometimes an interventionist state) in the half-century between the "second industrial revolution" and the Second World War. It analyzes labor issues by means of a careful local case study, but its conclusions about the interplay of labor, organized capital, law, and the state in determining the fate of workers' rights and employers' interests have broad relevance to the history and politics of twentieth-century industrial relations.

Author: Howell John Harris
ISBN-10: 0521028396
ISBN-13: 9780521028394
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 11/02/2006
Pages: 476
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.53lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.06d