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The Fall of the House of Labor
This book studies the changing ways in which American industrial workers mobilised concerted action in their own interests between the abolition of slavery and the end of open immigration from Europe and Asia. Sustained class conflict between 1916 and 1922 reshaped governmental and business policies, but left labour largely unorganised and in retreat. The House of Labor, so arduously erected by working-class activists during the preceeding generation, did not collapse, but ossified, so that when labour activism was reinvigorated after 1933, the movement split in two. These developments are analysed here in ways which stress the links between migration, neighbourhood life, racial subjugation, business reform, the state, and the daily experience of work itself.
Railroad Valuations
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August 20-September 15, 1919
Considers legislation to terminate wartime Federal control over railroads; to revise and extend Govt jurisdiction in rate-making and securities issuance matters; to provide for Federal railroad corporations; and to establish ICC regional planning commissions and a Federal Transportation Board.
Government Control and Operation of Railroads
Considers legislation to implement Federal control of railroads for period of the WWI emergency and to establish mechanisms for just compensation of carriers.
The Pennsylvania Railroad, Volume 2
By 1933, the Pennsylvania Railroad had been in existence for nearly ninety years. During this time, it had grown from a small line, struggling to build west from the state capital in Harrisburg, to the dominant transportation company in the United States. In Volume 2 of The Pennsylvania Railroad, Albert J. Churella continues his history of this giant of American transportation. At the beginning of the twentieth century, the Pennsylvania Railroad was the world's largest business corporation and the nation's most important railroad. By 1917, the Pennsylvania Railroad, like the nation itself, was confronting a very different world. The war that had consumed Europe since 1914 was about to engulf...
