Irving Bernstein (1916–2001)
Auteur de The Lean Years: A History of the American Worker, 1920-1933
A propos de l'auteur
Crédit image: from back jacket flap of Promises Kept
Œuvres de Irving Bernstein
A Caring Society: The New Deal, the Worker, and the Great Depression : A History of the American Worker 1933-1941 (1985) 23 exemplaires
Living Uja History: As Told Through the Personal Stories of Leaders of Israel and Leaders of the United Jewish Appeal (1997) 2 exemplaires
Arbitration of wages 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
The U.S. Department of Labor bicentennial history of the American worker (1976) — Contributeur — 21 exemplaires
Labor and American politics; a book of readings (1978) — Contributeur, quelques éditions — 9 exemplaires
Labor History, Vol. 5 No. 3, Fall 1964 — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- Bernstein, Irving
- Date de naissance
- 1916
- Date de décès
- 2001-09-25
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Pays (pour la carte)
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Rochester, New York, USA
- Lieu du décès
- Los Angeles, California, USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Rochester, New York, USA
Los Angeles, California, USA - Études
- University of Rochester (BA)
Harvard University (MA and PhD) - Professions
- labor arbitrator
political science professor (University of California, Los Angeles)
industrial economist (Bureau of Labor Statistics)
hearing officer (National War Labor Board)
Swedish language specialist (Research and Analysis Branch, Office of Strategic Services)
research professor (UCLA Institute of Industrial Relations) - Organisations
- National Academy of Arbitrators
UCLA Industrial Relations Research Association (research professor|president|1976)
University of California, Los Angeles
Membres
Critiques
The Turbulent Years: A History of the American… par Irving Bernstein
An absolute tome, but it's all here. Some is grating--Bernstein covers a great deal of factional warfare within unions and government. Some is more exciting than fiction, like when Toledo pickets trapped industrialists in a factory, and those industrialists used an airplane to resupply them with teargas on the roof. More than anything, though, this book is a thorough recount of the industrial union movement, the birth of the CIO, the sit-down strike in America, the terrible position of blacks who could only find work as strike breakers, the roles of various Marxist organizations, and the intense personalities who dominated the industrial union movement. I wouldn't trust anyone's take on the Great Depression who hasn't read this book.… (plus d'informations)
Third in a series on the American worker. It covers the social programs introduced in the Roosevelt administration,aid to dependant children,social security, unemployment insurance. There are very good biographical sketches of the people who led the reforms as Harry Hopkins.
Listes
Labor History (2)
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 8
- Aussi par
- 3
- Membres
- 229
- Popularité
- #98,340
- Évaluation
- 4.0
- Critiques
- 2
- ISBN
- 17