Bloodless Victories

The Rise and Fall of the Open Shop in the Philadelphia Metal Trades, 1890 1940

By: Howell John Harris

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This book, first published in 2000, examines how a group of manufacturers of metal products - 'everything from buttonhooks to battleships' - in America's third biggest city helped each other to meet the challenges of organized labour (and sometimes an interventionist state) in the half-century between the 'second industrial revolution' and the Second World War. After thirty years of success, the employers were finally overwhelmed by a resurgent labour movement backed by New Deal politicians and administrators. Their story offers the broadest and most detailed account available of the industrial relations problems and policies of small and mid-sized firms in this period. This book analyses labour issues by means of a careful local case study, but its conclusions about the interplay of labour, organized capital, law and the state in determining the fate of workers' rights and employers' interests have broad relevance to the history and politics of twentieth-century industrial relations.

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'... fully deserves the highest recommendation ... excellent text'. Enterprise and Society

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Iron Earliest Times to Present Day 20th Century History from 1900 to 2000 Manufacturing Industries

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Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
The iron masters
Laying the foundations: peace and war in the metal trades, c. 1890-1904
Combat, crisis, and consolidation, 1904-1915
'The largest, strongest, and most valuable association of metal manufacturers in any city'
Riding the storm, 1915-1918
The war after the war, 1918-1923
Pacific passage: quaker employers and welfare capitalism, c. 1905-1924
A liberal interlude: the modernization of the MMA, c. 1924-1931
The deluge: the Great Depression and the end of the open shop
The New World: accommodation and adjustment, 1936-1939
Afterword: 'We'll still be there
We're not going away'
Appendix
Index
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Bloodless Victories

The Rise and Fall of the Open Shop in the Philadelphia Metal Trades, 1890 1940

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