THE WOBBLIES: THE STORY OF SYNDICALISM IN THE UNITED STATES
de Renshaw, Patrick
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- VERY GOOD PLUS IN VERY GOOD DJ
- Librería
-
Eugene, Oregon, United States
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Sobre este artículo
Garden City, New York: Doubleday and Company, 1967. STATED FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. VERY GOOD PLUS IN VERY GOOD DJ. Octavo, Quarter green cloth with gilt titles and red boards. Dust jacket has original price intact, is clean and bright and encased in protective mylar. Covers, edges and interior are also clean and unmarked. Binding very solid. 312 pp. "This lively account of the Wobblies--the first complete history by an independent observer--takes the reader from the dramatic inaugural convention through the strikes they organized among the unskilled immigrant workers of the East; the free-speech demonstrations they led throughout the West; their efforts to reach the migrant workers and hoboes; their frequent bloody clashes with employers and the police, who rode the strikers down like Cossacks; their persecution during World War I for opposition to militarism; and theri interminable fights among themselves, which eventually hastened theri downfall." (from the front flap).
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- Librería
- Aardvark Rare Books (US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 85021
- Título
- THE WOBBLIES: THE STORY OF SYNDICALISM IN THE UNITED STATES
- Autor
- Renshaw, Patrick
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - VERY GOOD PLUS IN VERY GOOD DJ
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- STATED FIRST EDITION
- Editorial
- Doubleday and Company
- Lugar de publicación
- Garden City, New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 1967
- Palabras clave
- labor history, American history, IWW, Mother Jones, organized labor, strikes
- Catálogos del vendedor
- American History;
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