Between Craft and Class: Skilled Workers and Factory Politics in the United States and Britain, 1890-1922Between Craft and Class provides an incisive new look at workers' responses to the momentous economic changes surrounding them in the early years of the twentieth century. In this work, Haydu focuses on the reaction of skilled metal workers to new production methods that threatened time-honored craft traditions. He finds that the workers' responses to industrial change varied--some defended the status quo, while others agreed to trade customary rules fo. |
Contents
The Employers Challenge to Craft Standards | 26 |
From Local Struggles to National | 60 |
The Transformation of Craft Militancy 19001914 | 90 |
The Impact of World War I | 125 |
Workers Control and Industrial Relations | 144 |
Craft Radicalism and Management Control | 174 |
Patterns of Factory Politics in Comparative Perspective | 204 |
Notes | 223 |
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