Actors Organize: A History of Union Formation Efforts in America, 1880-1919

This work offers a detailed history of American actors' attempts to unionize in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Actors' unions of this period faced a staggering amount of struggles, including a heavy industry reliance on the blacklist, severe media attacks on individual actors, and the frequent formation of illegitimate company unions. This work focuses specifically on the two main unions of the time, the White Rats Actors' Union of America and the Actors' Equity Association. The author chronicles the formation of the unions along with their achievements in the following decades and outlines the roles of union leaders Harry Mountford and Francis Wilson.

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Actors Organize: A History of Union Formation Efforts in America, 1880-1919

This work offers a detailed history of American actors' attempts to unionize in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Actors' unions of this period faced a staggering amount of struggles, including a heavy industry reliance on the blacklist, severe media attacks on individual actors, and the frequent formation of illegitimate company unions. This work focuses specifically on the two main unions of the time, the White Rats Actors' Union of America and the Actors' Equity Association. The author chronicles the formation of the unions along with their achievements in the following decades and outlines the roles of union leaders Harry Mountford and Francis Wilson.

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Actors Organize: A History of Union Formation Efforts in America, 1880-1919

Actors Organize: A History of Union Formation Efforts in America, 1880-1919

by Kerry Segrave
Actors Organize: A History of Union Formation Efforts in America, 1880-1919

Actors Organize: A History of Union Formation Efforts in America, 1880-1919

by Kerry Segrave

Overview

This work offers a detailed history of American actors' attempts to unionize in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Actors' unions of this period faced a staggering amount of struggles, including a heavy industry reliance on the blacklist, severe media attacks on individual actors, and the frequent formation of illegitimate company unions. This work focuses specifically on the two main unions of the time, the White Rats Actors' Union of America and the Actors' Equity Association. The author chronicles the formation of the unions along with their achievements in the following decades and outlines the roles of union leaders Harry Mountford and Francis Wilson.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780786432837
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Publication date: 10/24/2007
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 215
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.90(d)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Cultural historian Kerry Segrave is the author of dozens of books on such diverse topics as drive-in theaters, ticket-scalping, lie detectors, jukeboxes, smoking and shoplifting. He lives in British Columbia.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Preface     

1. General Conditions, 1880–1900     
2. Early Efforts to Organize, 1880–1900     
3. The White Rats Emerge, 1900–1901     
4. Years of Stagnation, 1902–1907     
5. Mountford Arrives; the White Rats Resurface, 1908–1911     
6. Years of Stagnation Return, 1912–1915     
7. Mountford Returns, a War of Words, 1916     
8. Rats Strike Oklahoma, 1916     
9. Rats Strike Again, Then Fade Away, 1917–1919     
10. Actors’ Equity Association, the Beginnings, 1913–1919     
11. Actors’ Equity Association Strike, 1919     
12. Conclusion     

Chapter Notes     
Bibliography     
Index     
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