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Calf's head & union tale : labor yarns at work and play

Title: Calf's head & union tale : labor yarns at work and play / Archie Green.
Author: Green, Archie.
Publication: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [1996], ©1996.

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Description

283 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Alternative Title

Calf's head and union tale

Subjects

Working class > United States > Folklore
Tales > United States
Labor unions > United States > Folklore
Labor > United States > Folklore

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-267) and index.

Contents

Introduction: Tales Heard and Told -- 1. Calf's Head -- 2. Writer's Brains, Producer's Brains -- 3. How to Get into Heaven -- 4. Daniel O'Connell's Duel -- 5. Kelly Girl -- 6. Hand on the Jailhouse Wall -- 7. Service Letter -- 8. Hitting the Dutchman -- 9. Public Works -- 10. Horace Greeley's Editorial -- 11. Cormorants -- 12. Heaven's Gate -- 13. Propwash -- 14. Wilmington Trestle -- 15. Fleas and Dobies -- 16. Philharmonic Committee -- 17. Bringing in the Tools -- 18. Steam-Shovel Red -- 19. More Than I Do -- 20. Donkey's Breakfast -- 21. Soapbox Heckler -- 22. Dog's Tail -- 23. Drilling in Venezuela -- 24. Pay Equity -- 25. Organized -- 26. Wormwood Table -- 27. Mother Carey's Chickens -- 28. Best Boss in the World -- 29. Dramatic Stuff -- 30. Pillsbury's Best -- 31. Mary Ovington's Story -- 32. Discretion versus Valor -- 33. Seize Her, Bill -- 34. Measuring Rod -- 35. Mike Casey and the Strikebreakers -- 36. No Smoking --
37. Comes the Revolution -- 38. In the Stacks -- 39. Paddy Doyle -- 40. Hudson Touring Car -- 41. Running for the Streetcar -- 42. Form of a Fist -- 43. Scissors Story -- 44. At the Door -- 45. You Can't Buy Me -- 46. Smartest Dog -- 47. Scientific Management -- 48. Unhappy Secretary -- 49. Concrete Burial -- 50. Got That Job -- 51. Third Nut -- 52. Aunt Betya's Funeral -- 53. Judge Gary's Blast Furnace -- 54. Slow Pay -- 55. F-E's Stenographer -- 56. Saloon Doors -- 57. Rotary Club -- 58. Pea-Soup Fog -- 59. Worked to Death -- 60. Saviors -- 61. Vacation Time -- 62. O'Shaughnessy Guards the Gate -- 63. You're Fired -- 64. Furuseth's Credo -- 65. Wordplay -- 66. Bundle of Sticks.

ISBN

0252022483 (cloth : acid-free paper)
0252065530 (pbk. : acid-free paper)

LCCN

95050190

OCLC

ocm33899100

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries