Rebuilding Pulp and Paper Workers Union 1933-1941 |
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| Author:
| Zieger, Robert H. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-57233-371-0 |
| Publication Date: | Nov 2004 |
| Publisher: | University of Tennessee Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $26.95 |
Book Description:
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This study of the pulp and paper workers' union helps explain the AFL's often limited response to worker militancy in the 1930s as well as the more institutionalized moderation that emerged from the labor upsurge. Zieger sympathetically explains the union's limited goals but steady achievements--i.e., raising wages, narrowing differentials, and organizing blacks, women, and ethnically diverse workers--without resorting to strikes.
This study of the pulp and paper workers' union helps explain the AFL's often limited response to worker militancy in the 1930s as well as the more institutionalized moderation that emerged from the labor upsurge. Zieger sympathetically explains the union's limited goals but steady achievements--i.e., raising wages, narrowing differentials, and organizing blacks, women, and ethnically diverse workers--without resorting to strikes.