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Running the rails : capital and labor in the Philadelphia transit industry /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wolfinger, James (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, 2016.
Subjects:
Local transit > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > History.
Industrial relations > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > History.
Table of Contents:
  • Capital and the shifting nature of social control
  • Beginnings
  • Working on the line
  • Time of troubles
  • The age of Thomas Mitten
  • Hard times and a hate strike
  • Labor relations and public relations
  • National city lines and the imperatives of postwar capitalism
  • Advances hard won and well-deserved.