Workers And Unions In Wisconsin: A Labor History Anthology

by Darryl Holter

2020-12-30 00:01:45

Wisconsin accounts for about two percent of the nation's total population, but its contribution to the history of working people and social reform extends far beyond these numbers. In the early years of the twentieth century, Wisconsin became a verit... Read more

Wisconsin accounts for about two percent of the nation's total population, but its contribution to the history of working people and social reform extends far beyond these numbers. In the early years of the twentieth century, Wisconsin became a veritable laboratory for social and political reform, producing such landmark legislation as workers' compensation, unemployment insurance, and other laws that became models for several states and helped shape federal labor policies. The study of the history of labor also began in Wisconsin when University of Wisconsin economics professor John R. Commons started to document the history of work and labor in America. Less

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File size11 X 8.5 X 1 in
Print pages296
PublisherWisconsin Historical Society Press
Publication date December 9, 1999
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780870203145

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