American Rubber Workers & Organized Labor 1900-1941

In 1900 The Manufacture Of Rubber Products In The United States Was Concentrated In Several Hundred Small Plants Around York And Boston That Employed Low-paid Immigrant Workers With No Intervention From Unions. By The Mid-1930s, Thanks To The Automobile And The Depression, Production Was Concentrated In Ohio, The Labor Force Was Largely Native Born And Highly Paid, And Labor Organizations Had A Decisive Influence On The Industry. Daniel Nelson Tells The Story Of These Changes As A Case Study Of Union Growth Against A Background Of Critical Developments In Twentieth-century Economic Life.the Author Emphasizes The Years After 1910, When A Crucial Distinction Arose Between Big, Mass-production Rubber Producers And Those That Were Smaller And More Labor Intensive.