Them and Us: Struggles of a Rank-and-file UnionMonograph on the historical evolution of the national level trade union of electrical industry, telecommunications, and machine tool industry workers in the USA - comprises a chronology of events since 1929. |
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Page 63
... Swope . After the AFL craft organizations had been shattered by GE in the twenties , Swope set up Works Councils , which were company unions . But the NRA of 1933 , affirming the right of workers to form their own unions , compelled ...
... Swope . After the AFL craft organizations had been shattered by GE in the twenties , Swope set up Works Councils , which were company unions . But the NRA of 1933 , affirming the right of workers to form their own unions , compelled ...
Page 82
... Swope's labor policies- a booklet distributed to GE workers as proof that they didn't need their own union contract since everything was in the booklet , backed by GE's word , which naturally was as good as gold . For some reason the ...
... Swope's labor policies- a booklet distributed to GE workers as proof that they didn't need their own union contract since everything was in the booklet , backed by GE's word , which naturally was as good as gold . For some reason the ...
Page 83
... Swope's cast of mind . The committee started to bat around the possibility of an unconventional approach to GE . Perhaps it would serve the union's purpose best to propose to GE — that is , to Swope- that GE Q105A be converted into a ...
... Swope's cast of mind . The committee started to bat around the possibility of an unconventional approach to GE . Perhaps it would serve the union's purpose best to propose to GE — that is , to Swope- that GE Q105A be converted into a ...
Contents
Roots of RankandFile Unionism | 3 |
Depression Days in the Shops | 22 |
Pounding on AFL Doors | 37 |
Copyright | |
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References to this book
From Tank Town to High Tech: The Clash of Community and Industrial Cycles June C. Nash Limited preview - 1989 |
White Collar Workers in Transition: The Boom Years, 1940-1970 Mark Mccolloch No preview available - 1983 |