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- catalog abstract "For too many years American workers have been cut off from their own roots. When children go to school, they learn little about the people who work in factories and offices, their movements and their efforts for a better life. What is hidden from them is their own legacy, the heritage of culture and struggle handed on from other generations of working people. This book represents a new approach to history. It attempts to pass on that history from one group of workers to other workers, especially as workers and unions are at a crossroads, facing deteriorating conditions and even the permanent loss of jobs. But workers have faced these problems before, and surmounted them. This book can help all understand that our collective history helps us to face the challenges of the present and ones yet unknown of tomorrow. -- Publisher description.".
- catalog contributor b464726.
- catalog contributor b464727.
- catalog contributor b464728.
- catalog contributor b464729.
- catalog coverage "Naugatuck River Valley (Conn.) Biography.".
- catalog coverage "Naugatuck River Valley (Conn.) Economic conditions.".
- catalog coverage "Naugatuck River Valley (Conn.) Social conditions.".
- catalog created "1982.".
- catalog date "1982".
- catalog date "1982.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1982.".
- catalog description "For too many years American workers have been cut off from their own roots. When children go to school, they learn little about the people who work in factories and offices, their movements and their efforts for a better life. What is hidden from them is their own legacy, the heritage of culture and struggle handed on from other generations of working people. This book represents a new approach to history. It attempts to pass on that history from one group of workers to other workers, especially as workers and unions are at a crossroads, facing deteriorating conditions and even the permanent loss of jobs. But workers have faced these problems before, and surmounted them. This book can help all understand that our collective history helps us to face the challenges of the present and ones yet unknown of tomorrow. -- Publisher description.".
- catalog description "I. Prelude to the brass industry.".
- catalog description "II. From the establishment of the brass industry to 1920: the era of the immigrant : -- English skilled workers: importing the Industrial Revolution -- The immigrant work force: "They leave the place of their birth and that's against their will" -- Families: "At night we'd sit around with our feet in the oven and we'd share" -- Social life: "You knew your next-door neighbor" -- The church: religious, educational, social -- Politics: "Workingman's mayor" and "King of the Bolsheviks" -- The brass production process: from casting shop to widget -- The brass business: "A visible employer" -- The laborers: bull work and buggy lugging, cramping and charging -- The skilled workers: "The shop would have to stop without them" -- De-skilling: the story of the casters -- Working conditions: maimed hands and spelter shakes -- Early worker organization: the Knights of Labor and the Lady Brass Workers of Waterbury -- The 1919 strike: "Spreading by contagion" -- The 1920 strike: "We had all combination of people."".
- catalog description "III. 1920 to mid-century: the era of industrial unionism : -- After immigration: mingling and discrimination -- Homes: blocks and triple-deckers -- Families: "Saturday night was known as the fun night" -- Social life: societies and saloons -- Life in the Depression: "What am I going to do, take a piece of my house and eat it?" -- "Labor policy:" providing a docile labor force -- "Rationalization:" We took that control out of the operator's hands -- Time study and incentive systems: "They're always trying to increase production" -- Ethnicity and race at the work place: "A line drawn as to how far you could advance" -- Working women: "She used a micrometer just like a man" -- Conditions on the job: "When I whistle, I want you to come" -- The coming Industrial unionism: "We had a signal, just like Paul Revere" -- Union factionalism and secession: " If we hadn't had this type of a fight, we'd have been a hellofa power" -- The industrial unions at the acme of their power: "The process of brotherhood was exemplified, because there was a basic need."".
- catalog description "IV. Mid-century to 1980: the era of brass industry decline : -- The newest immigrants: minority workers -- Housing and urban reorganization: from walking city to suburban America -- Social life: "They're all over God's creation today" -- Families: "Now it takes two, and you can't make it" -- Decline of the brass industry: "Then one day the factory closed up and we were all out of a job" -- Working conditions: "One man could run the whole machine himself" -- A changing work force: "They don't want to tote that barge and lift that bale anymore" -- The labor movement: "I see all the companies testing the unions."".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and indexes.".
- catalog description "V. In conclusion: "You get up against the wall and there's no further to go: you have to start fighting back. Right?"".
- catalog extent "xvi, 284 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Brass Valley.".
- catalog identifier "0877222711 :".
- catalog identifier "087722272X (pbk.) :".
- catalog isFormatOf "Brass Valley.".
- catalog issued "1982".
- catalog issued "1982.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Philadelphia : Temple University Press,".
- catalog relation "Brass Valley.".
- catalog spatial "Connecticut Naugatuck River Valley".
- catalog spatial "Connecticut Naugatuck River Valley.".
- catalog spatial "Connecticut".
- catalog spatial "Naugatuck River Valley (Conn.) Biography.".
- catalog spatial "Naugatuck River Valley (Conn.) Economic conditions.".
- catalog spatial "Naugatuck River Valley (Conn.) Social conditions.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "American Brass Company History.".
- catalog subject "Brass industry and trade Connecticut Naugatuck River Valley Employees Interviews.".
- catalog subject "Brass industry and trade Connecticut Naugatuck River Valley History.".
- catalog subject "Brass industry and trade Employees Labor unions Connecticut Naugatuck River Valley History.".
- catalog subject "Ethnology Connecticut Naugatuck River Valley.".
- catalog subject "HD9539.B8 U538 1982".
- catalog subject "Immigrants Connecticut History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "Immigrants Employment United States.".
- catalog subject "Immigrants Political activity United States History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "Immigrants Religious life United States.".
- catalog subject "Immigrants United States Economic conditions 20th century.".
- catalog subject "Immigrants United States Social conditions 20th century.".
- catalog subject "Labor movement Connecticut History.".
- catalog subject "Labor unions Connecticut History.".
- catalog subject "Women Employment Connecticut History.".
- catalog subject "Women Employment United States History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "Women in the labor movement Connecticut History.".
- catalog tableOfContents "I. Prelude to the brass industry.".
- catalog tableOfContents "II. From the establishment of the brass industry to 1920: the era of the immigrant : -- English skilled workers: importing the Industrial Revolution -- The immigrant work force: "They leave the place of their birth and that's against their will" -- Families: "At night we'd sit around with our feet in the oven and we'd share" -- Social life: "You knew your next-door neighbor" -- The church: religious, educational, social -- Politics: "Workingman's mayor" and "King of the Bolsheviks" -- The brass production process: from casting shop to widget -- The brass business: "A visible employer" -- The laborers: bull work and buggy lugging, cramping and charging -- The skilled workers: "The shop would have to stop without them" -- De-skilling: the story of the casters -- Working conditions: maimed hands and spelter shakes -- Early worker organization: the Knights of Labor and the Lady Brass Workers of Waterbury -- The 1919 strike: "Spreading by contagion" -- The 1920 strike: "We had all combination of people."".
- catalog tableOfContents "III. 1920 to mid-century: the era of industrial unionism : -- After immigration: mingling and discrimination -- Homes: blocks and triple-deckers -- Families: "Saturday night was known as the fun night" -- Social life: societies and saloons -- Life in the Depression: "What am I going to do, take a piece of my house and eat it?" -- "Labor policy:" providing a docile labor force -- "Rationalization:" We took that control out of the operator's hands -- Time study and incentive systems: "They're always trying to increase production" -- Ethnicity and race at the work place: "A line drawn as to how far you could advance" -- Working women: "She used a micrometer just like a man" -- Conditions on the job: "When I whistle, I want you to come" -- The coming Industrial unionism: "We had a signal, just like Paul Revere" -- Union factionalism and secession: " If we hadn't had this type of a fight, we'd have been a hellofa power" -- The industrial unions at the acme of their power: "The process of brotherhood was exemplified, because there was a basic need."".
- catalog tableOfContents "IV. Mid-century to 1980: the era of brass industry decline : -- The newest immigrants: minority workers -- Housing and urban reorganization: from walking city to suburban America -- Social life: "They're all over God's creation today" -- Families: "Now it takes two, and you can't make it" -- Decline of the brass industry: "Then one day the factory closed up and we were all out of a job" -- Working conditions: "One man could run the whole machine himself" -- A changing work force: "They don't want to tote that barge and lift that bale anymore" -- The labor movement: "I see all the companies testing the unions."".
- catalog tableOfContents "V. In conclusion: "You get up against the wall and there's no further to go: you have to start fighting back. Right?"".
- catalog title "Brass Valley : the story of working people's lives and struggles in an American industrial region / the Brass Workers History Project ; compiled and edited by Jeremy Brecher, Jerry Lombardi, and Jan Stackhouse.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "Interviews. fast".
- catalog type "text".