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Author Holmes, Sean P.

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
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
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.
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Subject Actors' Equity Association -- History.
Actors' Equity Association.
History.
Actors' Equity Association.
Actors -- Labor unions -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Actors -- Labor unions.
United States.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Theater -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Theater.
Chronological Term 1900 - 1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
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 book)
0252094689 (electronic book)
9780252037481
0252037480
9781299463394
1299463398