Trade unions and community : the German working class in New York City, 1870-1900
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- Name
- Schneider, Dorothee, 1952-
- Title
- Trade unions and community : the German working class in New York City, 1870-1900
- Abstract
- 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 community in a new, rapidly changing industrial society
- Why were the unions so well suited to the development of the German-American working class and its integration into North American society and politics? What was the effect of the trade unions' central role on the community as a whole? Did these unions carry their community-building role into the American trade union movement in general?
- To answer these questions, Schneider focuses on German-American skilled workers, portraying a group of immigrants who brought from Europe not just their pre-industrial traditions but also a wealth of experience in industrialized settings and a diverse political culture
- Examining bakers, brewery workers, and cigar makers, she highlights the origins of the political culture of the American immigrant working class in a new way. Schneider argues that, in spite of the contradictory interests of traditionalists, political progressives, and assimilationists, German-American workers favored a centralized craft unionism and thus became backers of Samuel Gompers's American Federation of Labor
- Collection Name
- Seymour B. Durst Old York Library Collection
- Subjects
- Trade-unions--New York (State)--New York--History.; German Americans--Employment--New York (State)--New York--History.; Noncitizen labor--New York (State)--New York--History.; Community--New York (State)--New York--History.; New York (N.Y.)
- Format
- books
- Genre
- books
- Publication Information
- University of Illinois Press: Urbana
- Date
- c1994
- Physical Description
- xx, 273 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- 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.
- Catalog Record
- 1447388
- Also In
- Seymour B. Durst Old York Library
- Persistent URL
- https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-kx0w-ds39