Fighting for total person unionism : Harold Gibbons, Ernest Calloway, and working-class citizenship / Robert Bussel.
2015
HD6508.5 .B87 2015 (Mapit)
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Title
Fighting for total person unionism : Harold Gibbons, Ernest Calloway, and working-class citizenship / Robert Bussel.
ISBN
9780252039492 (hardcover) (alkaline paper)
0252039491 (hardcover) (alkaline paper)
9780252081040 (paperback) (alkaline paper)
0252081048 (paperback) (alkaline paper)
9780252097607 (electronic book)
0252039491 (hardcover) (alkaline paper)
9780252081040 (paperback) (alkaline paper)
0252081048 (paperback) (alkaline paper)
9780252097607 (electronic book)
Published
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2015]
Language
English
Description
ix, 244 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Call Number
HD6508.5 .B87 2015
Dewey Decimal Classification
331.88092/273 B
Summary
Examines the efforts of two labor leaders working with Teamsters Local 688 in St. Louis in the 1950s and 1960s to lead their "citizen members" in battles for urban revitalization, improved public services, and the advancement of racial and economic justice.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Series
Working class in American history.
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Table of Contents
1. Coming up the hard way
2. "Apostles of a New Order"
3. Able and militant fighters for workers
4. "A Bunch of Fellows Who Have Taken the Declaration of Independence Seriously"
5. "The Most Powerful Union in America"
6. "Those Fellows Back There Actually Hate You"
7. "The Other Sixteen Hours"
8. "A Hell of a Whipping"
9. "A Planned Social Revolution"
10. "A Trade Union Oriented War on the Slums"
11. "Fuck Him, He Wasn't With Us".
2. "Apostles of a New Order"
3. Able and militant fighters for workers
4. "A Bunch of Fellows Who Have Taken the Declaration of Independence Seriously"
5. "The Most Powerful Union in America"
6. "Those Fellows Back There Actually Hate You"
7. "The Other Sixteen Hours"
8. "A Hell of a Whipping"
9. "A Planned Social Revolution"
10. "A Trade Union Oriented War on the Slums"
11. "Fuck Him, He Wasn't With Us".