About this title: A groundbreaking labour study, this book offers a detailed portrait of the Citizens Alliance (CA), a union of Minneapolis business owners, which employed any means necessary to squelch the power of organised labour. The association blacklisted union workers, ran a spy network to ferret out union activity, and, when necessary, raised a private army to crush its opposition with brute force. The influence of the CA also reached across the state to battle socialists, labour unions, the Non-partisan League, and the Industrial Workers of the World. The book examines the philosophies and tactics of ...
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Edition: First Edition {First Printing}
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press, Saint Paul, Minnesota
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780873513982ISBN:0873513983
Description: Fine in Fine jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. "In this groundbreaking work, William Millikan explores the philsophies and tactics of the Citizens Alliance fromits inseption in 1903 to the passage of the Labor Management relations Act of 1947, legislation that effectively inhabitad the power of unions....A UNION AGAINST UNION offers a comprehensive picture of the CA's campaign against organized labor and a fascinationg view of Minneapolis history during the first half of the twentieth century. " ... read more
Edition: Updated_Month1|0
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press, U.S.
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780873513982ISBN:0873513983
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