Labor Leaders in America (Working Class in American History)
Contributors: Melvyn Dubofsky (Editor); Warren Van Tine (Editor)
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: October 1, 1990
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 396
ISBN-13: 9780252013270
Subjects: Economic history; Labour economics; Social history; Trade unions; Business & Economics / Labor; History Of Labor; Biography; Labor Unions; Labor leaders; Officials and employees; United States; Working class; Biography/Autobiography
First sentence: In 1828, when William Sylvis was born in the town of Armagh, it consisted of some thirty buildings nestled among the mountains of western Pennsylvania only a few miles from the Connemaugh River.