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Book SynopsisRailroad brotherhoods' dynamic impact on American labor relations and national politics
Trade Review"Successfully presents a portrait of the contradictory legacy of the railroad unions--ahead of their time in realizing the need for state intervention to protect workers' rights, yet obstructionist in preserving white-skinned privilege for some of the most highly skilled workers of the industrializing era."--Labor Studies Journal "A breakthrough book that integrates gender and race into an understanding of the politics of class consciousness on the American railroads... Should be widely read, not only as first-rate history but also as an object lesson for social reformers."--EH.NET "A well-document, lucid account of railway labor organizations during a crucial period... Highly recommended."--Choice "Engaging, well written, and well researched. It is a must-read for anyone interested not only in the history of workers and unions in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century America but also society, culture, and politics in Gilded Age and Progressive Era America."--The Journal of American History
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; Introduction: Reconsidering the Railroad Brotherhoods; Chapter 1. Workplace and Household Life in the Running Trades; Chapter 2. Victorian America and the Brotherhoods' Fraternal Culture; Chapter 3. Free-Labor Ideology and Labor Relations in the Gilded Age; Chapter 4. The Crisis of the 1890s and the Reordering of Railroad Labor Relations; Chapter 5. Progressive Era America and the Culture of the New Unionism; Chapter 6. Craft Industrialism and the Arbitration System; Chapter 7. Political Action, Industrial Action and the Making of the Liberal State; Conclusion; Notes; Index
