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Subject(s)

• Labor unions—Political activity—Great Britain—History [Browse]
• Labor unions—Political activity—Germany—History [Browse]
• Labor unions—Political activity—United States—History [Browse]

Series

• Princeton Legacy Library [More in this series]
• Princeton legacy library

Summary note

This book combines the tools of political science, sociology, and labor history to offer a wide-ranging analysis of how unions have participated in politics in Britain, Germany, and the United States. Rather than focus exclusively on national union federations, Gary Marks investigates variations among individual unions both within and across these countries. By examining the individual unions that make up union movements, he probes beyond national descriptions of British laborism, German socialism, and American business unionism while bringing the analysis closer to the actual experiences of people who joined labor organizations.Among the topics Marks examines are state repression of unions, the Organizational Revolution, the contrasting experiences of printing and coalmining unions, and American Exceptionalism.Originally published in 1989.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Notes

Includes index.

Bibliographic references

Bibliography: pages [239]-266.

Source of description

• Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)
• Description based on print version record.

Language note

In English.

Contents

• Frontmatter
• CONTENTS
• LIST OF TABLES
• LIST OF FIGURES
• PREFACE
• INTRODUCTION. A COMPARATIVE APPROACH TO UNION POLITICAL ACTIVITY
• CHAPTER 1. VARIATIONS IN UNION POLITICAL ACTIVITY
• CHAPTER 2. UNIONS, REPRESSION, AND POLITICS
• CHAPTER 3. UNIONS AND THE ORGANIZATIONAL REVOLUTION
• CHAPTER 4. PRINTING UNIONS AND BUSINESS UNIONISM
• CHAPTER 5. COALMINING UNIONS AND POLITICAL UNIONISM
• CHAPTER 6. AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE
• APPENDIX. UNION SUPPORT FOR RADICAL POLITICAL MEASURES AT AFL CONVENTIONS
• BIBLIOGRAPHY
• INDEX

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Other format(s)

Issued also in print.

ISBN

• 9780691631127
• 0691631123
• 9781400860159
• 1400860156

OCLC

• 889253400
• 979882003

Doi

• 10.1515/9781400860159

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