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David Montgomery. The Fall of the House of Labor.

Biblioteca / 1980-1989

David Montgomery. The Fall of the House of Labor. The workplace, the state, and American labor activism, 1865-1925.

Cambridge, UK/París: Cambridge University Press/ Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, 1987.

480 páginas.

David Montgomery (1927-2011)

Contents

Introduction

1 – The manager’s brain under the workman’s cap

2 – The common laborer

3 – The operative

4 – The art of cutting metals

5 – White shirts and superior intelligence

6 – «Our time … believes in change»

7 – Patriots or paupers

8 – «This great struggle for democracy»

9 – «A maximum of publicity with a minimum of interference»