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Running the rails : capital and labor in the Philadelphia transit industry
"Public service workers and their unions come under frequent attack for being a "special interest" or a hindrance to the smooth functioning of society. This book offers readers a different, historically grounded way of thinking about the people who keep their cities running. Working i...
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
2016.
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Table of Contents:
- Capital and the shifting nature of social control
- Beginnings
- Working on the line
- Time of troubles
- The age of Thomas Mitten
- Hard times and a hate strike
- Labor relations and public relations
- National city lines and the imperatives of postwar capitalism
- Advances hard won and well-deserved.