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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Labor leaders"”.
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A History of the United Rubber Workers in Gadsden, Alabama, 1936-1943.
Organized labor entered the 20th century full of hope. Labor leaders had become convinced, through such violent struggles as the Pullman Strike, that more peaceful means must be found to settle labor-management disputes. Many industrial leaders had also become aware of the economic and political …
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Contesting the Terms of Incorporation: Labor and the State in Rio De Janeiro, 1930--1964
… fifteen years in which politicians courted urban labor as an important political constituency. Looking at, respectively, the internal dynamics of Rio's metalworkers' union, labor's new agenda and the strategies used by Rio's workers to implement it, and the national efforts to create new types of …
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A history of FERA and WPA workers' education, the Indiana experience 1933-1943
… stimulated educational activities within the labor movement. For example, in Indiana this program was particularly popular among the new Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) unions. Federal workers' education activities also encouraged union-university cooperation and laid the foundation …
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Between religion and politics: The working class religious left, 1880-1920
… of Social Christianity. It shows that Protestant leaders’ public solidarity with laborers were a direct response to the popularity of Jesus’ teachings within the labor and socialist movements. Clerics within the Federal Council of Churches sought to bring workers into their churches, but teach …