American Labor
Subtitle: A Documentary History
Contributors: Melvyn Dubofsky (Editor); Joseph A. McCartin (Editor)
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: October 7, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780312295653
Subjects: Labour economics; Social history; Work & labour; Business & Economics; Politics / Current Events; Business/Economics; USA; Labor & Industrial Relations - General; United States - State & Local - General; Political Science / Labor & Industrial Relations; General; History; Labor; Labor movement; Sources; United States; Work ethic
First sentence: The colonies established on the North American mainland and the Caribbean islands by rival European empires in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, an age of mercantilism, aimed at enriching the colonial powers.