American Workers, American Unions
Subtitle: The Twentieth Century (The American Moment)
Edition: third edition edition
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press; Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: December 11, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9780801870781
Subjects: American history: from c 1900 -; Economic history; Trade unions; 20th century; Labor & Industrial Relations - Unions; History; History - General History; History: American; USA; Labor unions; Constitutions; United States - General; History / United States / General; United States
First sentence: During the first quarter of the twentieth century, the world of American workers abounded in paradox.
Description: "Highly acclaimed and widely read, American Workers, American Unions (first published in 1986 and revised in 1994) provides a concise and compelling history of American workers and their unions in twentieth-century America. This new edition features a new chapter on labor's development prior to the 1920s, as well as an entirely new final chapter that takes a detailed look at the challenges faced by workers in the 1980s, 1990s, and the early twenty-first century.

Also included in this third edition is new bibliographical material and a regularly updated on-line link to an extended bibliographical essay."--BOOK JACKET.