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Jan 28, 2015 · action activists African-American agreement airline Amalgamated American Association began called century Chicago coal collective bargaining Committee Communist conflict contract corporate craft craft unions demands Despite dockworkers economic employers federal hired historian immigrant industrial unionism issues joined Knights of Labor labor ...
Jan 4, 2015 · Strikes have been part of American labor relations from colonial days to the present, reflecting the widespread class conflict that has run throughout the nation's history. Against employers and their goons, against the police, the National Guard, local, state, and national officials, against racist vigilantes, against their union leaders, and ...
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Jan 25, 2018 · Immanuel Ness. This comprehensive encyclopedia, edited by Aaron Brenner, Benjamin Henry Day Jr., and Immanuel Ness, is the first detailed collection of historical research on strikes in America. To provide the analytical tools for understanding strikes, the volume includes two types of essays - those focused on an industry or economic sector ...
Abstract The Italian American Cosa Nostra crime families are the longest-lived and most successful organized crime organizations in US history, achieving their pinnacle of power in the 1970s and 1980s. The families seized opportunities during the early twentieth-century labor wars and under national alcohol prohibition from 1919 to 1933. Control of labor unions gave them power to determine the ...
- James B. Jacobs
- 2020
The 19th century had inherited from the 18th a tradition of crime-writing broad enough to suit all pocketbooks and degrees of literacy: for the masses, criminal biographies, dying speeches, ballads, and news posters in single sheets (broadsides) on the streets; for those who had the time, skills, and money, Sessions Papers or reports of recent crime in newspapers; for the literate lower ...
Crime and its control had undoubtedly become a key feature of parliamentary and public debate by the early nineteenth century (Dodsworth 2014), but it was not until toward the end of the century that academic research and publication on aspects of crime and criminal justice history began. Early works tended to draw heavily on official sources such as government statistics and House of Commons ...
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Mar 8, 2018 · Violent crime rates may have risen at first during the Depression (in 1933, the nationwide homicide mortality rate hit a high for the century until that point, at 9.7 per 100,000 people) but the ...
