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Theories of the labor movement

Print Book, English, 1987
Wayne State University Press, Detroit, Mich., 1987
History
xi, 395 pages ; 26 cm
9780814318157, 9780814318164, 0814318150, 0814318169
15017530
The development of labor organization: a theoretical framework / John T. Dunlop
The Communist Manifesto, part I / Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
Trades' unions. their past, present and future / Karl Marx
Marxism and the sociology of trade unionism / Richard Hyman
Role of the trade unions in the general class struggle of the proletariat / A. Lozovsky
What is to be done? / V.I. Lenin
Lenin on trade unions / Thomas Taylor Hammond
I.W.W. manifesto
Preamble of the Industrial Workers of the World
Why strikes are lost / William Trautmann
Political parties and the I.W.W. / Vincent St. John
The general strike / William Haywood
Some definitions: direct action
sabotage / Frank Bohn
Big Bill Haywood testifies
Revolutionary syndicalism / Lewis Lorwin
Reflections on violence / Georges Sorel
Strategy for labor / André Gorz
Trade unionism: illusion and reality / Stanley Aronowitz
American labor history / John R. Commons
American Shoemakers, 1648-1895 / John R. Commons
Who were the Knights of St. Crispin? / Alan Dawley
A theory of the labor movement / Selig Perlman
Insight and illusion in Perlman's theory of the labor movement / Charles A. Guilick and Mervin K. Bers
The origins of trade unionism / Sidney and Beatrice Webb
The assumptions of trade unionism / Sidney and Beatrice Webb
Understanding labor unrest / Carleton Parker
Trade unionism in the United States / Robert Hoxie
A philosophy of labor / Frank Tannenbaum
The theory of business enterprise / Thorstein Veblen
The vested interests / Thorstein Veblen
Absentee ownership / Thorstein Veblen
The labor movement in America / Richard T. Ely
Rerum Novarum / Pope Leo XIII
Quadragesimo Anno / Pope Pius XI
Laborem Exercens / Pope John Paul II
Some reflections on syndicalism / Henry Simons
The trade unionism of Henry Simons / Orme W. Phelps
Free to choose: a personal statement / Milton and Rose Friedman
What do unions do? / Richard B. Freeman and James L. Medoff
Industrialism and industrial man / Clark Kerr, John T. Dunlop, Frederick H. Harbison and Charles A. Myers
Review of Industrialism and industrial man / Neil Chamberlain
Consciousness and action among the western working class / Michael Mann
The industrial system and the union / John Kenneth Galbraith
The affluence worker in the class structure / John H. Goldthorpe, David Lockwood, Frank Bechhofer and Jennifer Platt
The American tradition of labor theory and its relevance to the contemporary working class / John H.M. Laslett