Introduction -- Leaving the station: Stan Grizzle's legacy of social change -- The railways are always hiring: working in white man's country -- "Did you ring, Sir?": modern luxury and black labour -- The coloured commonwealth: reckoning with ah racist past -- "I know nothing about that":...

Die jetzt beendeten Tarifauseinandersetzungen zwischen der Gewerkschaft Deutscher Lokomotivführer und der Deutschen Bahn AG haben die Abhängigkeit der Wirtschaft vom Schienenverkehr verstärkt ins Bewusstsein gerufen. Wie hoch diese Abhängigkeit allerdings tatsächlich ist und wie sie sich...

Im Auftrag der Deutschen Bahn AG (DB) hat die DIW econ, eine Consulting-Tochter des DIW Berlin, die Löhne der Lokomotivführer der DB mit den Einkommen abhängig Beschäftigter in anderen Wirtschaftszweigen und in anderen Verkehrsberufen verglichen. In die Untersuchung einbezogen wurden auch...

American historians tend to believe that labor activism was moribund in the years between the First World War and the New Deal. Jon Huibregtse challenges this perspective in his examination of the railroad unions of the time, arguing that not only were they active, but that they made a big...

Intro -- Contents -- Prologue -- 1. Race in the First Century of American Railroading -- 2. Promise and Failure in the World War I Era -- 3. The Black Wedge of Civil Rights Unionism -- 4. Independent Black Unionism in Depression and War -- 5. The Rise of the Red Caps -- 6. The Politics of Fair...

"A pretty fair representation of the American people" : the great uprising and pictorial order in Gilded Age America / Joshua Brown -- "Our rights as workingmen" : class traditions and collective action in a nineteenth-century railroad town, Hornellsville, N.Y., 1869-82 / Shelton Stromquist --...

Using time series techniques, we contrast the impact of deregulation in trucking and rail labor markets. During regulation both labor markets were characterized by wages considerably higher than manufacturing wages. In fact, trucking and rail wages had a stable, deterministic relationship prior...

This chapter analyses efforts of the union and the management of a large urban transit company to address the high prevalence of hypertension among transit operators. Ethnographic evidence recounts the efforts to change the structure of work in order to decrease the problem. The chapter's key...