Weavers of Dreams, Unite! : Actors' Unionism in Early Twentieth-Century America.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (242 pages)
Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Weavers of Dreams, Unite! -- 1. The Great Text in Our Economy Today: The American Theater in an Age of Organization -- 2. The Sock and Buskin or the Artisan's Biretta: Reconciling Art and Labor in the Actors' Equity Ass -- 3. All the World's a Stage!: The Actors' Strike of 1919 -- 4. Protecting the High-Minded Actor and the High-Minded Manager in Equal Part: Occupational Unionism -- 5. For the Dignity and Honor of the Theatrical Profession: Respectability and Unrespectability in th -- 6. Ain't No Peace in the Family Now: The Actors' Equity Association and the Movies, 1919-1929 -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Index.