Labor in Akron, 1825-1945
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Akron, Ohio, is of special interest in the story of U.S. labor as it has a history of intense struggle, both between Capital and Labor and between conflicting forms of labor organization. This is the only full-length study of labor in Akron from the early 19th century to the end of the Second World War. It is both a narrative history and an examination of why neither a party of labor nor a social union movement took permanent root in the city, despite outbreaks of extraordinary militancy.
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Dr John Tully currently lives in the highlands of Tasmania with this wife and son. He is an Honorary Professor/Educator in the College of Arts & Education at Victoria University in Melbourne, Australia. Dr Tully has written a considerable number of nonfiction books, including histories of Cambodia, a social history of rubber, and a history of the American Indians of the Cuyahoga Valley. He is also the author of four novels.
His recent nonfiction publications include the following books: The Devil's Milk: A Social History of Rubber; Silvertown: The Lost Story of a Strike That Shook London and Helped Launch the Modern Labour Movement; and Crooked Deals and Broken Treaties: How American Indians Were Displaced By White Settlers in the Cuyahoga Valley. The titles of his most recent novels are Robbed of Every Blessing and On An Alien Shore.