American Railroad Labor and the Genesis of the New Deal 1919 1935 Working in the Americas 1st Edition by Jon Huibregtse ISBN 978-0813034652 0813034655

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ISBN 10:  0813034655

ISBN 13: 978-0813034652

Author:  Jon R. Huibregtse 

“Gauges and measures how railroad labor unions emerged from the World War I experience stronger and more vitally interested in improving their members’ lives. Captures how well the railroad unions embarked on a path of reforming retirement systems and social security.”–Colin J. Davis, University of Alabama, Birmingham

“Makes an interesting argument that the leadership of the railroad unions, primarily the operating crafts, were leaders in the development of labor law and social policy that predates the founding of the CIO.”–Mark A. Crouch, labor educator

American historians tend to believe that labor activism was moribund in the years between the First World War and the New Deal. Jon Huibregtse challenges this perspective in his examination of the railroad unions of the time, arguing that not only were they active, but that they made a big difference in American Labor practices by helping to set legal precedents.

Huibregtse explains how efforts by the Plumb Plan League and the Railroad Labor Executive Association created the Railroad Labor Act, its amendments, and the Railroad Retirement Act. These laws became models for the National Labor Relations Act and the Social Security Act. Unfortunately, the significant contributions of the railroad laws are, more often than not, overlooked when the NLRA or Social Security are discussed.

Offering a new perspective on labor unions in the 1920s, Huibregtse describes how the railroad unions created a model for union activism that workers’ organizations followed for the next two decades.

A volume in the series Working in the Americas, edited by Richard Greenwald and Timothy J. Minchin

Table of contents: 

1. Introduction

2. Railroading Prior to World War I

3. The Great War and its Aftermath

4. Grassroots Political Organization

5. The Road to Political Power, 1922–1924

6. The Railway Labor Act

7. Strengthening the Railway Labor Act

8. Railroad Retirement and Social Security

9. Railroad Unions and Labor Banks

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