Title Weavers of dreams, unite! : actor's unionism in early twentieth-century America / Sean P. Holmes.

Publication Info.	Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2013]
	©2013

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Description	1 online resource (x, 222 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Introduction: weavers of dreams, unite! -- The great text in our economy today: the American theater in an age of organization -- The sock and Buskin or the artisan's biretta: reconciling art and labor in the Actors' Equity Association, 1913-1919 -- All the world's a stage: the actors' strike of 1919 -- Protecting the high-minded actor and the high-minded manager in equal part: occupational unionism in the American theater industry, 1919-1929 -- For the dignity and honor of the theatrical profession: respectability and unrespectability in the Actors' Equity Association, 1919-1929 -- Ain't no peace in the family now: the Actors' Equity Association and the movies, 1919-1929 -- Epilogue.
Note	Print version record.
Subject	Actors' Equity Association -- History.
	Actors' Equity Association.
	Actors' Equity Association. (OCoLC)fst00516659
	Actors -- Labor unions -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
	Theater -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
	BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor.
	POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations.
	PERFORMING ARTS -- Theater -- History & Criticism.
	Actors -- Labor unions. (OCoLC)fst00796307
	Theater. (OCoLC)fst01149217
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Chronological Term	1900 - 1999
Genre/Form	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: Holmes, Sean P. Weavers of dreams, unite! Urbana : University of Illinois Press, ©2013 9780252037481 (DLC) 2012028166 (OCoLC)801219467
ISBN	9780252094682 (electronic bk.)
	0252094689 (electronic bk.)

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