The Strike Map Shows Oklahoma Workers Stay on the Job!
- Title:
- The Strike Map Shows Oklahoma Workers Stay on the Job!
- Alternate Title:
- The Strike Map Shows Oklahoma Workers Stay on the Job!
- Collection:
- Persuasive Maps: PJ Mode Collection
- Creator:
- Oklahoma Planning & Resources Board
- Date:
- 1946
- Posted Date:
- 2017-04-14
- ID Number:
- 1334.01
- Collection Number:
- 8548
- File Name:
- PJM_1334_01.jpg
- Style/Period:
- 1940 - 1959
- Subject:
- Advertising & Promotion
Pictorial
Unusual Projection - Measurement:
- 32 x 25 page (centimeters, height x width)
- Notes:
- In the period immediately following the end of World War II, the U.S. incurred an unprecedented level of strike activity, involving a number of vital industries. Strikes by oil workers and the United Auto Workers in the Fall of 1945 were followed in the first six months of 1946 by what the Bureau of Labor Statistics called "the most concentrated period of labor-management strife in the country's history." Brecher 1997, 246. "The strike wave was not limited to industrial workers. Strikes were unusually widespread among teachers, municipal workers, and utility workers, and there were more strikes in transportation, communication, and public utilities than in any previous year." Ibid. The government seized large portions of the nation's refineries, packinghouses, railroads and coal mines, in series of actions that led to the passage in 1947 of the Taft-Hartley Act.
During the height of this strife, the Oklahoma Planning & Resources Board aggressively promoted the State's relatively low rate of strike activity in Fortune Magazine in an effort to attract industrial and other economic development. The map shows Oklahoma along with a handful of other states in white as those with the lowest rate of strike activity, in contrast to the black and dark grey industrial states of the midwest and northeast. The text brags about the "self-reliance, energy, intelligence and loyalty" of the state's workers, almost all from "sturdy pioneer stock" with only 1% from "foreign stock." The state's workers - "recruited largely from small towns and farms" - had low absentee and turnover rates, which helped Oklahoma war industries to achieve "national production records."
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- Fortune Magazine
- Cite As:
- P.J. Mode collection of persuasive cartography, #8548. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
- Repository:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
- Archival Collection:
- P.J. Mode collection of persuasive cartography
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
- For important information about copyright and use, see http://persuasivemaps.library.cornell.edu/copyright.