Trade unions and community : the German working class in New York City, 1870-1900 /
In Trade Unions and Community Dorothee Schneider argues that German unions played a vital role in building community for German immigrants in North America. More than other organizations such as churches or regional groups, Schneider maintains, trade unions were in the best position to build communi...
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Urbana :
University of Illinois Press,
c1994
Urbana : ©1994 Urbana : [1994] |
| Series: | Working class in American history
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Table of Contents:
- 1. New York's German Immigrants: Parameters of a Community
- 2. Politics and Culture of German New York: The World of the Vereine
- 3. New York's Cigar Makers and Their Trade: The American Cigar Industry in Historical Perspective
- 4. The Great Strike of 1877
- 5. Cigar Makers and Trade Unions: Politics and the Community
- 6. Working-Class Politics and the Henry George Campaign of 1886
- 7. New York's Brewery Workers and Their Union
- 8. The New Organization of Brewery Workers: Ethnic and Industrial Unionism
- 9. The German Bakers of New York City: Ethnic Particularism in the Sweated Trades
- Conclusion: German Immigrants and American Labor
- 1 New York's German Immigrants: Parameters of a Community
- 2. Politics and Culture of German New York: The World of the Vereine
- 3. New York's Cigar Makers and Their Trade: The American Cigar Industry in Historical Perspective
- 4. The Great Strike of 1877
- 5. Cigar Makers and Trade Unions: Politics and the Community
- 6. Working-Class Politics and the Henry George Campaign of 1886
- 7. New York's Brewery Workers and Their Union
- 8. The New Organization of Brewery Workers: Ethnic and Industrial Unionism
- 9. The German Bakers of New York City: Ethnic Particularism in the Sweated Trades
- Conclusion: German Immigrants and American Labor.