Böcker av R. Alton Lee

While predominantly agrarian, Kansas has a surprisingly rich heritage of labour history and played an active role in the major labour strife of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This book presents a survey of the organized labour movement in the Sunflower State.

When Sunflowers Bloomed Red provides a synopsis of a Kansas style of radical tradition and shows how the Great Plains agrarian movement transformed and coalesced with socialist and syndicalist political movements to influence politics and culture in the twentieth century and beyond.

R. Alton Lee brings to life Emanuel Haldeman-Julius (1889-1951), a writer-publisher-entrepreneur who was one of America's most significant publishers and editorialists of the twentieth century, if not all time.

Although much of Kansas law reflects US law, the state court's arbitrary powers over labor-management conflicts, yellow dog contracts, civil rights, gender issues, and domestic relations set precedents that reverberated around the country. This work presents the history of a state through the use of its Supreme Court decisions as evidence.

Lee traces the development of the public's distrust of labor leaders and the rising sentiment for reform and then follows the progress of the legislation through both houses of Congress in the midst of moves and countermoves by labor and management.

Crumbine was a medical educator without peer, who used his department of health to disseminate the latest developments he and others throughout the world were achieving in public health.