New Immigrants and the Radicalization of American Labor, 1914-1924
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2016
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-1-4766-6249-7 (ISBN)
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-1-4766-6249-7 (ISBN)
By 1914, millions of immigrants from eastern and southern Europe were doing the dirtiest, most dangerous jobs in America's mines, mills and factories. The next decade saw major economic and demographic changes and the indoctrination of immigrant populations with labor movement ideology from both the US and Europe.
Millions of immigrants from eastern and southern Europe were by 1914 doing the dirtiest, most dangerous jobs in America's mines, mills and factories. The next decade saw major economic and demographic changes and the growing influence of radicalism over immigrant populations.
From the bottom rungs of the industrial hierarchy, immigrants pushed forward the greatest wave of strikes in U.S. labor history--lasting from 1916 until 1922--while nurturing new forms of labor radicalism. In response, government and industry, supported by deputized nationalist organizations, launched a campaign of "100 percent Americanism." Together they developed new labor and immigration policies that led to the 1924 National Origins Act, which brought to an end mass European immigration. American industrial society would be forever changed.
Millions of immigrants from eastern and southern Europe were by 1914 doing the dirtiest, most dangerous jobs in America's mines, mills and factories. The next decade saw major economic and demographic changes and the growing influence of radicalism over immigrant populations.
From the bottom rungs of the industrial hierarchy, immigrants pushed forward the greatest wave of strikes in U.S. labor history--lasting from 1916 until 1922--while nurturing new forms of labor radicalism. In response, government and industry, supported by deputized nationalist organizations, launched a campaign of "100 percent Americanism." Together they developed new labor and immigration policies that led to the 1924 National Origins Act, which brought to an end mass European immigration. American industrial society would be forever changed.
Thomas Mackaman is an assistant professor of history at King’s College in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. He specializes in late Progressive Era American history, especially labor and immigration.
Table of Contents
Preface
Abbreviations
Introduction: “Got a match?”
1. “Our lives, our thoughts and our allegiance”: New Immigrants in 1914
2. “A war of coal and iron”: 1914–1917
3. Securing “the industrial forts of America”: 1917–1918
4. “The Revolt of the Rank and File”: 1919
5. Reaction in New Country and Old: 1920–1924
Epilogue: The Nation-State, Immigration Restriction and Fordism
Chapter Notes
Bibliography
Index
Erscheinungsdatum | 11.07.2016 |
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Zusatzinfo | 7 photos, notes, bibliography, index |
Verlagsort | Jefferson, NC |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) |
Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945 | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
ISBN-10 | 1-4766-6249-5 / 1476662495 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-4766-6249-7 / 9781476662497 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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