Venturing outside the ivory tower : the political autobiography of a college professor : typescript [photocopy], [1999?] / Gordon Griffiths.

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Venturing outside the ivory tower : the political autobiography of a college professor : typescript [photocopy], [1999?] / Gordon Griffiths.

Contains the manuscript of Gordon Griffiths' autobiography covering the Loyalty Oath controversy's at the University of California, Berkeley (UCB) and the University of Washington (UW), communism vs. capitalism, protest movements at UCB and UW campuses.

220, [70] p. ; 30 cm.

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Administrative History During the mid-twentieth century, the American Labor Movement reached a pinnacle of power and influence within society. The Second World War required that labor be managed as a strategic resource; the high productivity of workers during the war carried over in the peace time economy, which experienced a sustained economic "boom." Unlike European labor relations, where unions play an "official" role in government, the Am...

Griffiths, Gordon, 1914-....

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Historian. From the description of Venturing outside the ivory tower : the political autobiography of a college professor : typescript, circa 1999. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71132884 Gordon Griffiths was born in 1914 in Berkeley, California. He received a B.A. in Greek from UC Berkeley in 1936, B.A. and M.A. degrees in modern history from Balliol College at Oxford, and a Ph.D. in history from UC Berkeley in 1942. He taught history at Farragut College in 194...