The Samuel Gompers Papers, Vol. 1
Subtitle: The Making of a Union Leader, 1850-86 (Samuel Gompers Papers)
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: February 1, 1991
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 568
ISBN-13: 9780252011375
Subjects: Economic history; Labour economics; Social history; Labor & Industrial Relations - Unions; Political History; Biography & Autobiography / General; History Of Labor; Politics / Current Events; 1850-1924; Archives; Gompers, Samuel,; History; Labor movement; Labor unions; Sources; United States
First sentence: Samuel Gompers' paternal grandfather, Samuel Moses Gompers, worked for a time as a calico printer in Amsterdam before becoming an import-export merchant.