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American Rubber Workers & Organized Labor, 1900-1941
By (Author) Daniel Nelson
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
28th June 2016
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Manufacturing industries
Labour / income economics
Industrialisation and industrial history
678.2092
Hardback
354
Width 216mm, Height 279mm
1106g
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