American Rubber Workers & Organized Labor, 1900-1941

Hardback

Main Details

Title American Rubber Workers & Organized Labor, 1900-1941
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Daniel Nelson
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:354
Dimensions(mm): Height 279,Width 216
Category/GenreIndustrialisation and industrial history
Labour economics
ISBN/Barcode 9780691633817
ClassificationsDewey:678.2092
Audience
Tertiary Education (US: College)
Professional & Vocational

Publishing Details

Publisher Princeton University Press
Imprint Princeton University Press
Publication Date 19 April 2016
Publication Country United States

Description

In 1900 the manufacture of rubber products in the United States was concentrated in several hundred small plants around New York and Boston that employed low-paid immigrant workers with no intervention from unions. By the mid-1930s, thanks to the automobile and the Depression, production was concentrated in Ohio, the labor force was largely native