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Title Labor in the West / edited by Hugh T. Lovin.

Imprint Manhattan, Kan., USA : Sunflower University Press, c1986.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  331.0978 L113    ---  Available
Description 88 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Note "From the April 1986 Journal of the West, with two additional articles."
Bibliography Includes bibliographies and index.
Contents Some trends in labor history writings in this century / Hugh T. Lovin -- Labor in the Pacific Slope timber industry / William G. Robbins -- Labor in the Western oil industry / George N. Green -- Labor's fight for recognition in the Western coalfields / Allan Kent Powell -- The West Coast teamsters' and longshoremen's unions in the twentieth century / Jonathan Dembo -- Railroad labor relations in the Great War and after, 1917-1921 / W. Thomas White -- The national railroad strike of 1922 and the decline of organized labor in Nevada / Phillip I. Earl and Guy Louis Rocha -- Indians in the work force / Patricia K. Ourada -- Mexican labor in the United States : the view from Mexican cantinas / Manuel A. Machado, Jr. -- Twentieth-Century migrant farm labor / Merle Wells -- Women in the hop harvest from New York to Washington / Susan Armitage and Joan M. Jensen -- Idaho's food production army in World War II / Patricia K. Ourada.
Subject Working class -- West (U.S.) -- History -- 20th century.
Labor unions -- West (U.S.) -- History -- 20th century.
Added Author Lovin, Hugh T.
Added Title Journal of the West.
ISBN 0897450906 (pbk.)

 
    
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