American Labor and Immigration History, 1877-1920s

American Labor and Immigration History, 1877-1920s
Title American Labor and Immigration History, 1877-1920s PDF eBook
Author Dirk Hoerder
Publisher University of Illinois Press
Pages 312
Release 1983
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 9780252009631

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American Labor and Immigration History, 1877 -1920s

American Labor and Immigration History, 1877 -1920s
Title American Labor and Immigration History, 1877 -1920s PDF eBook
Author Dirk Hoerder
Publisher
Pages 286
Release 1983
Genre
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Women and American Socialism, 1870-1920

Women and American Socialism, 1870-1920
Title Women and American Socialism, 1870-1920 PDF eBook
Author Mari Jo Buhle
Publisher University of Illinois Press
Pages 388
Release 1983-04-01
Genre Social Science
ISBN 9780252010453

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Socialist women faced the often thorny dilemma of fitting their concern with women's rights into their commitment to socialism. Mari Jo Buhle examines women's efforts to agitate for suffrage, sexual and economic emancipation, and other issues and the political and intellectual conflicts that arose in response. In particular, she analyzes the clash between a nativist socialism influence by ideas of individual rights and the class-based socialism championed by German American immigrants. As she shows, the two sides diverged, often greatly, in their approaches and their definitions of women's emancipation. Their differing tactics and goals undermined unity and in time cost women their independence within the larger movement.

The Gilded Age

The Gilded Age
Title The Gilded Age PDF eBook
Author Mark Twain
Publisher
Pages 380
Release 1904
Genre City and town life
ISBN

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A Century of Dishonor

A Century of Dishonor
Title A Century of Dishonor PDF eBook
Author Helen Hunt Jackson
Publisher
Pages 540
Release 1885
Genre Indians of North America
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Organized Labor...

Organized Labor...
Title Organized Labor... PDF eBook
Author Samuel Gompers
Publisher
Pages 288
Release 1925
Genre
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The Business of Empire

The Business of Empire
Title The Business of Empire PDF eBook
Author Jason M. Colby
Publisher Cornell University Press
Pages 289
Release 2011-10-27
Genre History
ISBN 080146272X

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The link between private corporations and U.S. world power has a much longer history than most people realize. Transnational firms such as the United Fruit Company represent an earlier stage of the economic and cultural globalization now taking place throughout the world. Drawing on a wide range of archival sources in the United States, Great Britain, Costa Rica, and Guatemala, Colby combines "top-down" and "bottom-up" approaches to provide new insight into the role of transnational capital, labor migration, and racial nationalism in shaping U.S. expansion into Central America and the greater Caribbean. The Business of Empire places corporate power and local context at the heart of U.S. imperial history. In the early twentieth century, U.S. influence in Central America came primarily in the form of private enterprise, above all United Fruit. Founded amid the U.S. leap into overseas empire, the company initially depended upon British West Indian laborers. When its black workforce resisted white American authority, the firm adopted a strategy of labor division by recruiting Hispanic migrants. This labor system drew the company into increased conflict with its host nations, as Central American nationalists denounced not only U.S. military interventions in the region but also American employment of black immigrants. By the 1930s, just as Washington renounced military intervention in Latin America, United Fruit pursued its own Good Neighbor Policy, which brought a reduction in its corporate colonial power and a ban on the hiring of black immigrants. The end of the company's system of labor division in turn pointed the way to the transformation of United Fruit as well as the broader U.S. empire.