Weavers of dreams, unite! [electronic resource] : actor's unionism in early twentieth-century America / Sean P. Holmes.
Material type: TextPublication details: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2013. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (264 p.)ISBN:- 9780252094682
- 331.88/11791430280973 23
- PN2016 .H66 2013
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.
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