Author: G. William Domhoff
Publisher: Touchstone
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
The author is convinced that there is a ruling class in America today. He examines the American power structure as it has developed in the 1980s. He presents systematic, empirical evidence that a fixed group of privileged people dominates the American economy and government. The book demonstrates that an upper class comprising only one-half of one percent of the population occupies key positions within the corporate community. It shows how leaders within this "power elite" reach government and dominate it through processes of special-interest lobbying, policy planning and candidate selection. It is written not to promote any political ideology, but to analyze our society with accuracy.
Who Rules America Now?
Author: G. William Domhoff
Publisher: Touchstone
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
The author is convinced that there is a ruling class in America today. He examines the American power structure as it has developed in the 1980s. He presents systematic, empirical evidence that a fixed group of privileged people dominates the American economy and government. The book demonstrates that an upper class comprising only one-half of one percent of the population occupies key positions within the corporate community. It shows how leaders within this "power elite" reach government and dominate it through processes of special-interest lobbying, policy planning and candidate selection. It is written not to promote any political ideology, but to analyze our society with accuracy.
Publisher: Touchstone
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
The author is convinced that there is a ruling class in America today. He examines the American power structure as it has developed in the 1980s. He presents systematic, empirical evidence that a fixed group of privileged people dominates the American economy and government. The book demonstrates that an upper class comprising only one-half of one percent of the population occupies key positions within the corporate community. It shows how leaders within this "power elite" reach government and dominate it through processes of special-interest lobbying, policy planning and candidate selection. It is written not to promote any political ideology, but to analyze our society with accuracy.
Rise of the Labor Movement in Los Angeles
Author: Grace Heilman Stimson
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520349377
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1955.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520349377
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1955.
The Jewish Unions in America
Author: Bernard Weinstein
Publisher: Open Book Publishers
ISBN: 1783743565
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
Newly arrived in New York in 1882 from Tsarist Russia, the sixteen-year-old Bernard Weinstein discovered an America in which unionism, socialism, and anarchism were very much in the air. He found a home in the tenements of New York and for the next fifty years he devoted his life to the struggles of fellow Jewish workers. The Jewish Unions in America blends memoir and history to chronicle this time. It describes how Weinstein led countless strikes, held the unions together in the face of retaliation from the bosses, investigated sweatshops and factories with the aid of reformers, and faced down schisms by various factions, including Anarchists and Communists. He co-founded the United Hebrew Trades and wrote speeches, articles and books advancing the cause of the labor movement. From the pages of this book emerges a vivid picture of workers’ organizations at the beginning of the twentieth century and a capitalist system that bred exploitation, poverty, and inequality. Although workers’ rights have made great progress in the decades since, Weinstein’s descriptions of workers with jobs pitted against those without, and American workers against workers abroad, still carry echoes today. The Jewish Unions in America is a testament to the struggles of working people a hundred years ago. But it is also a reminder that workers must still battle to live decent lives in the free market. For the first time, Maurice Wolfthal’s readable translation makes Weinstein’s Yiddish text available to English readers. It is essential reading for students and scholars of labor history, Jewish history, and the history of American immigration.
Publisher: Open Book Publishers
ISBN: 1783743565
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
Newly arrived in New York in 1882 from Tsarist Russia, the sixteen-year-old Bernard Weinstein discovered an America in which unionism, socialism, and anarchism were very much in the air. He found a home in the tenements of New York and for the next fifty years he devoted his life to the struggles of fellow Jewish workers. The Jewish Unions in America blends memoir and history to chronicle this time. It describes how Weinstein led countless strikes, held the unions together in the face of retaliation from the bosses, investigated sweatshops and factories with the aid of reformers, and faced down schisms by various factions, including Anarchists and Communists. He co-founded the United Hebrew Trades and wrote speeches, articles and books advancing the cause of the labor movement. From the pages of this book emerges a vivid picture of workers’ organizations at the beginning of the twentieth century and a capitalist system that bred exploitation, poverty, and inequality. Although workers’ rights have made great progress in the decades since, Weinstein’s descriptions of workers with jobs pitted against those without, and American workers against workers abroad, still carry echoes today. The Jewish Unions in America is a testament to the struggles of working people a hundred years ago. But it is also a reminder that workers must still battle to live decent lives in the free market. For the first time, Maurice Wolfthal’s readable translation makes Weinstein’s Yiddish text available to English readers. It is essential reading for students and scholars of labor history, Jewish history, and the history of American immigration.
A History of California Labor Legislation
Author: Lucile Eaves
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chinese
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chinese
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
History of Labour in the United States: Introduction, by J.R. Commons. Colonial and federal beginnings (to 1827), by D.J. Saposs. Citizenship (1827-1833), by Helen L. Sumner. Trade unionism (1833-1839), by E.B. Mittelman. Humanitarianism (1840-1860), by H.E. Hoagland
Author: John Rogers Commons
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Labor
Languages : en
Pages : 674
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Labor
Languages : en
Pages : 674
Book Description
The Gilded Age
Author: Mark Twain
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : City and town life
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : City and town life
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Living the California Dream
Author: Alison Rose Jefferson
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496229061
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
2020 Miriam Matthews Ethnic History Award from the Los Angeles City Historical Society Alison Rose Jefferson examines how African Americans pioneered America’s “frontier of leisure” by creating communities and business projects in conjunction with their growing population in Southern California during the nation’s Jim Crow era.
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496229061
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
2020 Miriam Matthews Ethnic History Award from the Los Angeles City Historical Society Alison Rose Jefferson examines how African Americans pioneered America’s “frontier of leisure” by creating communities and business projects in conjunction with their growing population in Southern California during the nation’s Jim Crow era.
History of Labour in the United States: Introduction, by J. R. Commons. Colonial and federal beginnings (to 1827) by D. J. Saposs ; Citizenship (1827-1833) by Helen L. Sumner ; Trade unionism (1833-1839) by E. B. Mittelman ; Humanitarianism (1840-1860) by H. E. Hoagland
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Labor movement
Languages : en
Pages : 666
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Labor movement
Languages : en
Pages : 666
Book Description
History of Labour in the United States
Author: John Rogers Commons
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Labor
Languages : en
Pages : 662
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Labor
Languages : en
Pages : 662
Book Description
The Labor Movement
Author: George Edwin McNeill
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Labor
Languages : en
Pages : 738
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Labor
Languages : en
Pages : 738
Book Description