Bøger af John Hoerr

Hoerr's first novel but fourth book paints a vivid portrait of labor relations in industrial McKeesport.

A story that explodes the belief that women white-collar workers tend to reject unionization and accept a passive role in the workplace. On the contrary, the women workers of Harvard University created a powerful union - one that emphasizes their own values and priorities as working women and rejects unwanted aspects of traditional unionism.

Centered around mostly ordinary people, Harry, Tom, and Father Rice relates the story of the author's uncle Harry Davenport, union leader Tom Quinn, and Father Charles Owen Rice to the great conflict between anti-Communist and Communist forces in the American labor movement.

This book reveals more about steel and some of its management and union personalities than has ever been written. It provides an intimate look at cause and effect in the decline of one of America's great basic industries, and it shows the importantance of steel's labor relations experience to the country as a whole.