Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-322) and index.
Contents
I: Private protocolism: industrial democracy in New York's ladies' garment industry -- Workers' organizing industry: the New York city garment strikes of 1909-1910 -- The making of industrial democracy in the ladies' garment industry: the creation of the protocols of peace -- The shifting ground of protocolism: struggling for the soul of industrial democracy -- II: Public protocolism: the triangle fire and the transformation of industrial democracy -- "The burning building at 23 Washington place": the triangle fire and the transformation of industrial democracy -- Politics: setting the stage for industrial democracy in Progressive Era New York -- The politics of administrative reform: the factory investigating commission, 1911-1913 -- Industrial democracy meets the welfare state in Progressive Era New York -- The historical legacy of industrial democracy: from protocolism to the New Deal.