Running the Rails : : Capital and Labor in the Philadelphia Transit Industry /

Running the Rails : : Capital and Labor in the Philadelphia Transit Industry / / James Wolfinger.

Philadelphia exploded in violence in 1910. The general strike that year was a notable point, but not a unique one, in a generations-long history of conflict between the workers and management at one of the nation's largest privately owned transit systems. In Running the Rails, James Wolfinger u...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
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Wolfinger, James,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2016]
©2016
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (304 p.) :; 13 halftones, 4 maps, 2 tables
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Capital and the Shifting Nature of Social Control
  • 1. Beginnings
  • 2. Working on the Line
  • 3. Time of Troubles
  • 4. The Age of Thomas Mitten
  • 5. Hard Times and a Hate Strike
  • 6. Labor Relations and Public Relations
  • 7. National City Lines and the Imperatives of Postwar Capitalism
  • Advances Hard Won and Well Deserved
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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