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Textile workers --- Strikes and lockouts --- Cotton textile industry --- Textile industry --- Employees --- Combinations of labor --- Lockouts --- Work stoppages --- Direct action --- Labor disputes --- Strikebreakers --- Labor unions --- History. --- Textile Workers Union of America --- Harriet Cotton Mills (Henderson, N.C.) --- Henderson Cotton Mills --- Henderson Cotton Mills (Henderson, N.C.) --- Harriet & Henderson Cotton Mills --- TWUA --- Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union
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It is a bedrock American belief: the 1950s were a golden age of prosperity for autoworkers. Flush with high wages and enjoying the benefits of generous union contracts, these workers became the backbone of a thriving blue-collar middle class. It is also a myth. Daniel J. Clark began by interviewing dozens of former autoworkers in the Detroit area and found a different story - one of economic insecurity caused by frequent layoffs, unrealised contract provisions, and indispensable second jobs. 'Disruption in Detroit' is a vivid portrait of workers and an industry that experienced anything but stable prosperity.
Automobile industry and trade --- Automobile industry workers --- History --- Labor unions --- Detroit (Mich.) --- Economic conditions
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How did a college education become so vital to American notions of professional and personal advancement? Reared on the ideal of the self-made man, American men had long rejected the need for college. But in the early twentieth century this ideal began to change as white men born in the U.S. faced a barrage of new challenges, among them a stultifying bureaucracy and growing competition in the workplace from an influx of immigrants and women. At this point a college education appealed to young men as an attractive avenue to success in a dawning corporate age. Accessible at first almost exclusively to middle-class white males, college funneled these aspiring elites toward a more comfortable and certain future in a revamped construction of the American dream. In Creating the College Man Daniel A. Clark argues that the dominant mass media of the era--popular magazines such as Cosmopolitan and the Saturday Evening Post--played an integral role in shaping the immediate and long-term goals of this select group of men. In editorials, articles, fiction, and advertising, magazines depicted the college man as simultaneously cultured and scientific, genteel and athletic, polished and tough. Such depictions underscored the college experience in powerful and attractive ways that neatly united the incongruous strains of American manhood and linked a college education to corporate success.
Middle class men --- Male college students --- Education, Higher --- Press coverage --- History. --- Sociological aspects
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