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Railroad Brotherhoods, 1877-1917

Paul Michel Taillon

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University of Illinois Press
15 February 2009

Railway transport industries; Trade unions

Series: Working Class in American History

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By: Paul Michel Taillon
Imprint: University of Illinois Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 454g
ISBN: 9780252076787
ISBN 10: 0252076788
Series: Working Class in American History
Pages: 296
Publication Date: 15 February 2009
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Acknowledgments; 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

Paul Michel Taillon is a senior lecturer in the History Department at the University of Auckland, New Zealand.