Actors Organize
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 ...
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 ...
