Bread--and roses
Subtitle: the struggle of American labor, 1865-1915.
Series: The Living history library
Publisher: Knopf
Published: 1967
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 231
Subjects: Labor movement -- United States -- History; Labor unions -- United States -- History; Labor movement -- History; Labor unions -- History; United States -- Social conditions -- 1865-1918
Description: A documented account of the growth of the American labor movement from the Civil War to World War I. Examines labor conditions resulting from the change to mass production in mine, mill, and railroad; child labor; women workers; tenement life and sweatshops as contrasted to the life of the rich in the Gilded Age; and the strikes that made the union a permanent institution.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 223-226.