TY - BOOK AU - Holmes,Sean P. ED - Project Muse. TI - Weavers of dreams, unite!: actor's unionism in early twentieth-century America SN - 9780252094682 AV - PN2016 .H66 2013 U1 - 331.88/11791430280973 23 PY - 2013/// CY - Urbana PB - University of Illinois Press KW - Actors' Equity Association KW - History KW - Theater KW - United States KW - 20th century KW - Actors KW - Labor unions KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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 UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780252094682/ ER -