Research Catalog

Title

Waves of opposition : labor and the struggle for democratic radio / Elizabeth Fones-Wolf.

Author

Fones-Wolf, Elizabeth A., 1954-

Publication

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2006.

Supplementary Content

Contributor biographical information

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Details

Description

viii, 307 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Series Statement

The history of communication

Subject

• Labor unions and radio > United States > History > 20th century
• Labor unions > Public relations > History > United States > 20th century
• Mass media and business > United States > History > 20th century
• Radio broadcasting > Political aspects > United States > 20th century

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-300) and index.

Contents

Putting class on the air : initial forays into labor and business broadcasting -- Labor radio : a catalyst for social change in Depression-era America -- Codes of silence : censoring labor on the airwaves -- "The air belongs to the people" : breaking the NAB code -- Protecting listeners' rights : radio reform, 1945-48 -- Competing voices : business and labor in local postwar broadcasting -- Union voices in a "wilderness of conservatism".

Call Number

MWGH 07-126

ISBN

• 0252031199 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 9780252031199 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0252073649 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9780252073649 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

• 2006000327
• 9780252031199
• 9780252073649

OCLC

62872800

Author

Fones-Wolf, Elizabeth A., 1954-

Title

Waves of opposition : labor and the struggle for democratic radio / Elizabeth Fones-Wolf.

Imprint

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2006.

Series

The history of communication

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-300) and index.

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Table of contents only

Contributor biographical information

Other Standard Identifier

9780252031199

9780252073649

Research Call Number

MWGH 07-126