The Last Great Strike

The Open Shop

In Part I of The Last Great Strike, Professor White discusses the precursors to the Little Steel Strike.

Part I is composed of the following five chapters:

• Like a Penitentiary: Steel and the Origins of the Open Shop

• They Should Honor Us: Work and Conflict in the Open Shop Era 

• Sure, We Have Guns: The Open Shop in the Depression Era  

• I Never Gave That Guy Nothin’: The New Deal and the Changing Landscape  of Labor Relations

• To Banish Fear: The Campaign to Organize Steel