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Labor in America

a history

8th ed.
Labor in America
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An edition of Labor in America (2010)

Labor in America

a history

8th ed.

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Harlan Davidson
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Pages
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Table of Contents

Colonial America --
Life and labor in the colonies --
Workers, politics, and revolution -- -- The
First unions --
Early unions --
Law vs. labor --
Growth of labor organization -- -- The
Workingmen's parties --
Leadership --
Political action --
Labor strength in the 1830s --
Union growth -- -- A
National labor movement? -- -- An
Urge to strike -- -- An
Employer counterattack -- -- The
National Trades Union -- -- The
Decline of unionism -- -- The
Impact of industrialism --
Industrialism, technological change, and reform --
Rebuilding a union movement --
Toward national organization -- -- The
National Labor Union -- -- The
NLU and social reform --
Depression and union decline -- -- An
Era of upheaval --
Unrest and conflict -- -- The
Great railroad strikes -- -- The
Haymarket Riot -- -- The
Rise and decline of the Knights of Labor --
Origins of the Knights of Labor -- -- The
Rise of the Knights -- -- The
Decline of the Knights -- -- The
American Federation of Labor --
Triumph of business union --
Samuel Gompers and the new unionism --
Emergence of the AFL --
AFL principles and policies --
Homestead and Pullman -- -- The
Great Pullman strike and boycott --
Labor, populism, and socialism --
Labor in ebb tide -- -- The
Progressive era --
Employers and unions : a new understanding -- -- The
Anthracite Coal Strike, 1902 --
Employers fight back --
AFL and political action --
Organizing immigrant workers --
Thunder on the Left -- -- The
Wobblies -- -- The
Spirit of the IWW -- -- The
Lawrence strike --
Repressing the IWW, 1913-1919 -- -- The
Meaning of the WWI -- -- The
First World War and after --
Postwar labor upheaval --
Year of strikes, 1919 --
Labor militancy --
Labor in retreat -- -- The
American plan and the open shop --
Welfare capitalism --
Labor and insurgent politics -- -- The
AFL after Gompers -- -- The
Demoralization of organized labor -- -- The
New Deal --
Section 7(a) -- -- A
New unionism and its limits -- -- The
Wagner Act -- -- The
New Deal political order -- -- The
Rise of the Congress of Industrial Organizations --
John L. Lewis and the CIO -- -- The
Impact of the CIO --
Labor and politics --
War, Lewis, and the election of 1940 -- -- The
Second World War -- -- The
National War Labor Board -- -- The
1945-1946 strike wave -- -- A
New industrial relations system --
From Taft-Hartley to the merger of the AFL and the CIO --
Labor, Taft-Hartley, and politics -- -- A
United labor movement --
AFL-CIO : a "sleepy monopoly" --
Disappointed hopes --
Labor's decline --
Corruption, politics, and labor's travail --
Race, war, and agricultural workers -- -- A
Satisfied labor movement --
Hard times : workers and unions, 1973-1992 -- -- An
End to economic growth? --
Restructuring the labor force -- -- The
Rise of public employee unionism --
Labor and politics -- -- The
Crisis of unionism --
Lane Kirkland and dashed hopes --
Union troubles in mass-production industries --
Deregulation and union decline in transportation -- -- A
Mixed bag -- -- A
New labor-Left alliance -- -- A
Dim future for labor? --
Hope and despair : workers and unions since 1993 --
Labor and politics -- -- A
New unionism --
Hard and dangerous work -- -- A
New war economy --
Toward an unequal society -- -- The
Wal-Mart effect --
Labor's travails cause dissension --
Triumph and tribulation --
Whither labor?

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
Wheeling, Ill

Classifications

Library of Congress
HD8066 .D8 2010, HD8066.D8 2010

The Physical Object

Pagination
xi, 479 p., [30] p. of plates :
Number of pages
479

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL24585618M
ISBN 10
0882952730
ISBN 13
9780882952734
LCCN
2009036261
OCLC/WorldCat
436221245

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OL15639934W

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