Do unto others: The Golden Rule Fund and organized labor in Worcester, Massachusetts, 1955-1965

From: Historical Journal of Massachusetts | Date: January 1, 1999| Author: | Copyright information

The effectiveness of organized labor in achieving significant improvements in workers' wages during the post-World War II, collective bargaining era, is widely recognized. The newfound "affluence" of workers, however, meant that new and different pressures would be brought to bear, both on working people and on their organizations.

While the militant hostility of employers who chose to fight out battles in the street was largely in the past, employer hostility to unions and to workers lived on in more subtle forms. This article is intended to demonstrate the more civilized hostility of ...

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