Bloodless Victories : The Rise and Fall of the Open Shop in the Philadelphia Metal Trades, 1890-1940 (Hardcover)

Figures and tables; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; 1. Introduction; 2. The iron masters; 3. Laying the foundations: peace and war in the metal trades, c.1890?1904; 4. Combat, crisis, and consolidation, 1904?15; 5. 'The largest, strongest, and most valuable association of metal manufacturers in any city'; 6. Riding the storm, 1915?18; 7. The war after the war, 1918?23; 8. Pacific passage: quaker employers and welfare capitalism, c.1905?24; 9. A liberal interlude: the modernization of the MMA, c.1924?31; 10. The deluge: the Great Depression and the end of the open shop; 11. The New World: accommodation and adjustment, 1936?9; 12. Afterword: 'We'll still be there. We're not going away'; Appendix; Index.