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There is power in a union : the epic story of labor in America / Philip Dray.
LIBRA HD6508 .D73 2010
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dray, Philip.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Labor unions--United States--History.
- Labor unions.
- Industrialization--Social aspects.
- History.
- United States.
- Labor movement--United States--History.
- Labor movement.
- Industrialization--Social aspects--United States--History.
- Industrialization.
- United States--Social conditions.
- Social conditions.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 772 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Doubleday, [2010]
- Summary:
- From an award-winning historian, a stirring (and timely) narrative history of American labor from the dawn of the industrial age to the present day.
- Contents:
- The oppressing hand of avarice
- Hell with the lid off
- We mean to have eight hours
- Pullman's town
- Industrial democracy
- We shall be all
- Dynamite
- Let us have peace and make cars
- Spies, crooks, and congressmen
- If America's soul becomes poisoned
- A time for choosing.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [727]-741) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780385526296
- 0385526296
- OCLC:
- 495271379
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