Green, James R. 1944-2016

Death in the Haymarket : a story of Chicago, the first labor movement, and the bombing that divided gilded age America by James R Green( Book )

13 editions published between 2006 and 2007 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,291 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

On May 4, 1886, a bomb exploded at a Chicago labor rally, wounding dozens of policemen, seven of whom eventually died. Coming in the midst of the largest national strike Americans had ever seen, the bombing created mass hysteria and led to a sensational trial, which culminated in four controversial executions. The trial seized headlines across the country, created the nation's first Red scare and dealt a blow to the labor movement from which it would take decades to recover. Historian Green recounts the rise of the first great labor movement in the wake of the Civil War and brings to life the epic twenty-year battle for the eight-hour workday. He also gives us a portrait of Chicago, the Midwestern powerhouse of the Gilded Age. Throughout, we are reminded of the increasing power of newspapers as they stirred up popular fears of the immigrants and radicals who led the unions.--From publisher description

The world of the worker : labor in twentieth-century America by James R Green( Book )

28 editions published between 1979 and 1998 in English and held by 1,159 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

This text illuminates workers' lives at home, on the job, and in the voting booths

Grass-roots socialism : radical movements in the Southwest, 1895-1943 by James R Green( Book )

12 editions published between 1977 and 1980 in English and held by 787 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

In Grass-Roots Socialism, James Green includes information about the party's propaganda techniques, especially those used in the lively newspapers that claimed fifty thousand subscribers in the Southwest by 1913, and information about the attractive summer camp meetings that drew thousands of poor white tenant farmers to week-long agitation and education sessions. In this broadly based study, Green examines such popular leaders as Oklahoma's Oscar Ameringer (the "Mark Twain of American Socialism"), "Red Tom" Hickey of Texas, and Kate Richards O'Hare, who was second only to Eugene Debs as a Socialist orator. - Back cover

The devil is here in these hills : West Virginia's coal miners and their battle for freedom by James R Green( Book )

5 editions published in 2015 in English and held by 700 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

From before the dawn of the 20th century until the arrival of the New Deal, one of the most protracted and deadly labor struggles in American history was waged in West Virginia. On one side were powerful corporations whose millions bought armed guards and political influence. On the other side were 50,000 mine workers, the nation's largest labor union, and the legendary "miners' angel," Mother Jones. The fight for unionization and civil rights sparked a political crisis verging on civil war that stretched from the creeks and hollows to the courts and the US Senate. In The Devil is Here in These Hills, celebrated labor historian James Green tells the story of West Virginia and coal like never before

Workers' struggles, past and present : a "Radical America" reader( Book )

5 editions published in 1983 in English and Undetermined and held by 357 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The mine wars( Visual )

4 editions published in 2016 in English and held by 351 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

At the beginning of the 20th century, coal was the engine of American industrial progress. Nearly three quarters of a million men across the country spent ten or twelve hours a day underground in coal mines. The Mine Wars brings to life the struggle that turned the coalfields of southern West Virginia into a blood-soaked war zone where basic constitutional rights and freedoms were violently contested

Commonwealth of toil : chapters in the history of Massachusetts workers and their unions by Tom Juravich( Book )

4 editions published in 1996 in English and Undetermined and held by 235 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Over the past two centuries, Massachusetts workers have fought for many important advances that would later be enjoyed by other Americans. The right to organize, restrictions on work hours and child labor, and workers' compensation were all pioneered in the Commonwealth. From the 1825 strike of Boston carpenters for a ten-hour day to recent victories in hospitals and universities, Massachusetts workers and their unions have been in the forefront of the battle for dignity and justice. This book tells their story. In eighteen chapters, beginning with the first industrial workers in the nation - the Lowell "mill girls"--The authors describe the struggles of working men and women to improve their lives. In the process, the book provides a valuable perspective on the development of the American labor movement

Boston's workers : a labor history by James R Green( Book )

3 editions published in 1979 in English and held by 97 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Socialism and the southwestern class struggle, 1898-1918 : a study of radical movements in Oklahoma, Texas, Louisiana and Arkansas : a dissertation presented to the faculty of the Graduate School of Yale University in candidacy for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy by James R Green( )

13 editions published between 1972 and 1980 in English and held by 52 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

This thesis examines the growth of the Socialist Party in the region where it developed its greatest grass-roots strength in the early twentieth century: the Southwest, specifically Oklahoma (the state in which the party built its best organization between 1910 and 1916), Texas, and, to a lesser extent, western Louisiana and Arkansas. --

Taking history to heart : the power of the past in building social movements by James R Green( Book )

11 editions published between 2000 and 2003 in 3 languages and held by 14 WorldCat member libraries worldwide