Irish Voice and Organized Labor in America

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Irish Voice and Organized Labor in America A Biographical Study

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L. A. O'Donnell

Book Code: GM9944

ISBN: 0-313-29944-7

ISBN-13: 978-0-313-29944-5

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256 pages, photographs

Greenwood Press

Publication: 3/30/1997

List Price: $131.95 (UK Sterling Price: £75.00)

Availability: Out of stock

Media Type: Hardcover

Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4

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Series Title: Contributions in Labor Studies

Series Number: 49

Reviews:

O'Donnell's deeply informed study of 12 Irish American labor leaders contains brief biographies of activists ranging from 19th-century union pioneers Peter J. McGuire and Terence V. Powderly, to radicals Elizabeth Gurley Flynn and William Z. Foster, to shapers of 20th-century industrial unionism, John Brophy and Philip Murray.... This study is both well grounded in the historiography of US labor and in the tangled history of Irish nationalism in Ireland and the US.... a reliable collective biography that provides useful guideposts for future research.
—Choice
[A] welcome reminder of the struggles of immigrant workers to share in the American dream.
—Business Library Reivews

Description: This biographical study analyzes the careers and thinking of a dozen union leaders of Irish descent who contributed significantly to the union movement. The work demonstrates the pragmatic approach of the majority of these leaders arising from disappointing experience with radical ideas embraced in their youth. Their object was cohesion among diverse nationalities in the work force to build strong national unions able to eliminate destructive wage competition in ever-widening markets. Beginning with background on Irish immigration, the study follows developments from the 1870s and extends through those who were active in the 1950s on both coasts and in the mid-west. It is the first book written for scholars and others dealing with Irish-American unionists in depth.

Table of Contents:

Introduction
Origins and Encounters
Pathfinders: McGuire and Powderly
A Pair of Fenian Rebels: McDonnell and Roney
P. H. McCarthy: Lord of the Building Trades
A Trio of Radicals: Flynn, Foster, and Jones
John Fitzpatrick: Humanitarian
Irish and the CIO: Brophy, Murray, and Quill
A Rising in the Work Force
Selected Bibliography
Index

LC Card Number: 95-48358

LCC Class: HD6508

Dewey Class: 331


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