American Labor
Subtitle: A Documentary History
Contributors: Melvyn Dubofsky (Editor); Joseph A. McCartin (Editor)
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: October 7, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780312295646
Subjects: Labor & Industrial Relations - General; United States - State & Local - General; Political Science / Labor & Industrial Relations; Business & Economics; Politics / Current Events; Textbooks; History; Labor; Labor movement; Sources; United States; Work ethic; Business/Economics
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.