Labor in America
Subtitle: a history
By: Melvyn Dubofsky, Foster Rhea Dulles.
Contributors: Dulles, Foster Rhea, 1900-1970.
Edition: 8th ed.
Publisher: Harlan Davidson
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Wheeling, Ill
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780882952734
Subjects: Labor -- United States -- History; Working class -- United States -- History; Labor unions -- United States -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Colonial America; title: Life and labor in the colonies; title: Workers, politics, and revolution; title: The first unions; title: Early unions; title: Law vs. labor; title: Growth of labor organization; title: The workingmen's parties; title: Leadership; title: Political action; title: Labor strength in the 1830s; title: Union growth; title: A national labor movement?; title: An urge to strike; title: An employer counterattack; title: The National Trades Union; title: The decline of unionism; title: The impact of industrialism; title: Industrialism, technological change, and reform; title: Rebuilding a union movement; title: Toward national organization; title: The National Labor Union; title: The NLU and social reform; title: Depression and union decline; title: An era of upheaval; title: Unrest and conflict; title: The great railroad strikes; title: The Haymarket Riot; title: The rise and decline of the Knights of Labor; title: Origins of the Knights of Labor; title: The rise of the Knights; title: The decline of the Knights; title: The American Federation of Labor; title: Triumph of business union; title: Samuel Gompers and the new unionism; title: Emergence of the AFL; title: AFL principles and policies; title: Homestead and Pullman; title: The great Pullman strike and boycott; title: Labor, populism, and socialism; title: Labor in ebb tide; title: The progressive era; title: Employers and unions : a new understanding; title: The Anthracite Coal Strike, 1902; title: Employers fight back; title: AFL and political action; title: Organizing immigrant workers; title: Thunder on the Left; title: The Wobblies; title: The spirit of the IWW; title: The Lawrence strike; title: Repressing the IWW, 1913-1919; title: The meaning of the WWI; title: The First World War and after; title: Postwar labor upheaval; title: Year of strikes, 1919; title: Labor militancy; title: Labor in retreat; title: The American plan and the open shop; title: Welfare capitalism; title: Labor and insurgent politics; title: The AFL after Gompers; title: The demoralization of organized labor; title: The New Deal; title: Section 7(a); title: A new unionism and its limits; title: The Wagner Act; title: The New Deal political order; title: The rise of the Congress of Industrial Organizations; title: John L. Lewis and the CIO; title: The impact of the CIO; title: Labor and politics; title: War, Lewis, and the election of 1940; title: The Second World War; title: The National War Labor Board; title: The 1945-1946 strike wave; title: A new industrial relations system; title: From Taft-Hartley to the merger of the AFL and the CIO; title: Labor, Taft-Hartley, and politics; title: A united labor movement; title: AFL-CIO : a "sleepy monopoly"; title: Disappointed hopes; title: Labor's decline; title: Corruption, politics, and labor's travail; title: Race, war, and agricultural workers; title: A satisfied labor movement; title: Hard times : workers and unions, 1973-1992; title: An end to economic growth?; title: Restructuring the labor force; title: The rise of public employee unionism; title: Labor and politics; title: The crisis of unionism; title: Lane Kirkland and dashed hopes; title: Union troubles in mass-production industries; title: Deregulation and union decline in transportation; title: A mixed bag; title: A new labor-Left alliance; title: A dim future for labor?; title: Hope and despair : workers and unions since 1993; title: Labor and politics; title: A new unionism; title: Hard and dangerous work; title: A new war economy; title: Toward an unequal society; title: The Wal-Mart effect; title: Labor's travails cause dissension; title: Triumph and tribulation; title: Whither labor?