{"product_id":"for-all-white-collar-workers-daniel-j-opler-9780814256718","title":"For All White-Collar Workers: The Possibilities of Radicalism in New York City's Department Store Unions, 1934-1953","description":"In recent decades the American labor movement has fallen on hard times, in part due to its long reliance on blue-collar workers for its membership despite the growing importance of retail and service jobs. In \u003ci\u003eFor All White-Collar Workers: The Possibilities of Radicalism in New York City's Department Store Unions, 1934-1953, \u003c\/i\u003e Daniel Opler examines early efforts to unionize workers in department and retail stores. Beginning with the origins of the modern labor movement in the mid-1930s, Opler argues that Communist labor organizers created vibrant and powerful unions in New York City's department stores, only to see those unions--and the CIO's powerful retail workers' union--destroyed during the McCarthy era. In the process of examining these unions, Opler takes the reader far beyond union meetings and contract negotiations, exploring the ways in which consumption, urban life, and changing understandings of public space affected the unions in these eras. As a result, \u003ci\u003eFor All White-Collar Workers\u003c\/i\u003e becomes an exploration of such diverse subjects as the conflicts over midtown Manhattan, the 1939-1940 New York World's Fair, the link between consumption and patriotism during World War II, private housing developments in 1940s New York City, and suburbanization, all viewed through the lens of the rise and fall of New York City's department store unions.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Daniel J. Opler\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0814256716\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780814256718\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Ohio State University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/09\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 282\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.92lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.64d","brand":"Daniel J. Opler","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44059835760895,"sku":"9780814256718","price":35.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_fca2d5e3-5336-42bd-afd7-8f53fa0d60ba.jpg?v=1685060601","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/for-all-white-collar-workers-daniel-j-opler-9780814256718","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}