Strategic Labor Organizing in the Era of Industrial Transformation: A Comparative Historical Analysis of Unionization in Steel and Coal, 1870-1916

Review of Radical Political Economics

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 541-576

  Brueggemann, John ^a   Brown, Cliff ^b  

^a SKIDMORE COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

Author keywords

Coal; Ethnic Diversity; Labor union organizing; Steel; Technology

Indexed keywords

EID: 0043017137     PISSN: 04866134     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0486-6134(00)90001-9     Document Type: Article

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