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American Rubber Workers & Organized Labor, 1900-1941
By (Author) Daniel Nelson
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
23rd September 2014
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
678.2092
Paperback
354
Width 216mm, Height 279mm
794g
In 1900 the manufacture of rubber products in the United States was concentrated in several hundred small plants around New York and Boston that employed low-paid immigrant workers with no intervention from unions. By the mid-1930s, thanks to the automobile and the Depression, production was concentrated in Ohio, the labor force was largely native