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The Resource Divided loyalties : the public and private life of labor leader John Mitchell, Craig Phelan

Divided loyalties : the public and private life of labor leader John Mitchell, Craig Phelan

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Summary
  • John Mitchell was a contradictory figure, representing the best and worst labor leadership had to offer at the turn of the century. Articulate, intelligent, and a skillful negotiator, Mitchell made effective use of the press and political opportunities as well as the muscle of his union. He was also manipulative, calculating, tremendously ambitious, and prone to place more trust in the business community than in his own rank and file
  • Phelan relates Mitchell's life to many issues currently being debated by labor historians, such as organized labor's search for respectability, its development of a large bureaucracy, its ambiguous relationship to the state, and its suppression of worker input. In addition, he shows how Mitchell's life illuminates broad economic and political developments in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Extent
xii, 438 pages
Contents
  • The emergence of a labor leader, 1870-1898
  • The boy president, 1899
  • The anthracite strike of 1900
  • Mitchell enters the national scene, 1901
  • The great strike of 1902
  • On the witness stand
  • A year of reckoning, 1904
  • Shattered dreams of cooperation, 1905-1906
  • Years of personal crisis, 1907-1908
  • Decline and death, 1908-1919
Isbn
9780791420874
Instance
Label
Divided loyalties : the public and private life of labor leader John Mitchell
Title
Divided loyalties
Title remainder
the public and private life of labor leader John Mitchell
Statement of responsibility
Craig Phelan
Creator
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
  • John Mitchell was a contradictory figure, representing the best and worst labor leadership had to offer at the turn of the century. Articulate, intelligent, and a skillful negotiator, Mitchell made effective use of the press and political opportunities as well as the muscle of his union. He was also manipulative, calculating, tremendously ambitious, and prone to place more trust in the business community than in his own rank and file
  • Phelan relates Mitchell's life to many issues currently being debated by labor historians, such as organized labor's search for respectability, its development of a large bureaucracy, its ambiguous relationship to the state, and its suppression of worker input. In addition, he shows how Mitchell's life illuminates broad economic and political developments in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
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Biography type
individual biography
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DLC
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1958-
http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
Phelan, Craig
Index
index present
LC call number
HD8073.M5
LC item number
P48 1994
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • United Mine Workers of America
  • Mitchell, John
  • Mitchell, John
  • Mitchell, John (Gewerkschaftsmitglied)
  • United Mine Workers of America
  • Labor leaders
  • Coal miners
  • Anthracite coal industry
  • Arbitration, Industrial
  • Anthracite coal industry
  • Arbitration, Industrial
  • Coal miners
  • Labor leaders
  • United States
Label
Divided loyalties : the public and private life of labor leader John Mitchell, Craig Phelan
Instantiates
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [361]-431) and index
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volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
The emergence of a labor leader, 1870-1898 -- The boy president, 1899 -- The anthracite strike of 1900 -- Mitchell enters the national scene, 1901 -- The great strike of 1902 -- On the witness stand -- A year of reckoning, 1904 -- Shattered dreams of cooperation, 1905-1906 -- Years of personal crisis, 1907-1908 -- Decline and death, 1908-1919
Dimensions
24 cm.
Extent
xii, 438 pages
Isbn
9780791420874
Lccn
93042744
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
System control number
  • (OCoLC)29478361
  • (OCoLC)ocm29478361
Label
Divided loyalties : the public and private life of labor leader John Mitchell, Craig Phelan
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [361]-431) and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
The emergence of a labor leader, 1870-1898 -- The boy president, 1899 -- The anthracite strike of 1900 -- Mitchell enters the national scene, 1901 -- The great strike of 1902 -- On the witness stand -- A year of reckoning, 1904 -- Shattered dreams of cooperation, 1905-1906 -- Years of personal crisis, 1907-1908 -- Decline and death, 1908-1919
Dimensions
24 cm.
Extent
xii, 438 pages
Isbn
9780791420874
Lccn
93042744
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
System control number
  • (OCoLC)29478361
  • (OCoLC)ocm29478361

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