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Labor in America : A History.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dubofsky, Melvyn.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Labor--United States--History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (529 pages)
- Edition:
- 9th ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2017.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Figures
- Abbreviations
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Chapter 1: Conditions of Labor in Colonial America
- Life and Labor in the Colonies
- Workers, Politics, and Revolution
- Chapter 2: Varieties of Worker Resistance and the Emergence of the First Unions
- The Origins of Worker Organization
- Early Unions
- Law versus Labor
- The Growth of Labor Organization
- Chapter 3: The Growth of the Market and Labor's Response
- Workingmen's Parties
- Leadership
- Political Action
- Chapter 4: Labor Organizing in the 1830s
- Union Growth
- A National Labor Movement?
- An Urge to Strike
- An Employer Counterattack
- The National Trades' Union
- The Decline of Unionism
- Chapter 5: Free Labor in an Emerging Industrial Economy
- Industrialism, Technological Change, and Reform
- Rebuilding a Union Movement
- The Coming of War
- Chapter 6: Toward National Organization
- The National Labor Union
- The NLU and Social Reform
- Depression and Union Decline
- Chapter 7: An Era of Upheaval
- Unrest and Conflict
- The Great Railroad Strikes
- The Haymarket Square Riot
- Chapter 8: The Rise and Decline of the Knights of Labor
- The Origins of the Knights of Labor
- The Rise of the Knights
- The Decline of the Knights
- Chapter 9: The American Federation of Labor
- The Triumph of Business Unionism
- Samuel Gompers and the New Union Model
- The Emergence of the AFL
- The Principles and Policies of the AFL
- Chapter 10: Labor Conflict and Economic Crisis in the 1890s
- Worker Resistance and Industrial Conflict
- Labor, Populism, and Socialism
- Labor at Ebb Tide
- Chapter 11: The Labor Question in the Progressive Era
- Employers and Unions Experiment with Accommodation
- The Anthracite Coal Strike of 1902
- The Employers Fight Back.
- AFL Political Action and a Nascent Labor-Democratic Alliance
- Organizing Immigrant Workers
- Chapter 12: The Rise and Repression of Labor Radicalism
- The Rise of the IWW
- The Spirit of the IWW
- The Lawrence Strike
- The Decline, Repression, and Lasting Legacy of the IWW
- Chapter 13: The Great War's Ambiguous Legacy
- Postwar Labor Upheaval
- The Last Throes of Postwar Labor Militancy, 1919 to 1922
- Chapter 14: Economic Change and Union Retreat in the 1920s
- The American Plan and the Open Shop
- Welfare Capitalism
- The Failure of Insurgent Politics, 1922 to 1924
- The AFL after Gompers
- The Demoralization of Organized Labor
- Chapter 15: The New Deal
- Section 7(a) and the Revival of Organizing
- The Wagner Act
- The New Deal Political Order
- Chapter 16: The Rise of the Congress of Industrial Organizations
- John L. Lewis and the CIO
- The Impact of the CIO
- Chapter 17: Labor and the New Deal State
- War, Lewis, and the Election of 1940
- Chapter 18: World War II
- The NWLB and Labor Politics
- Wartime Racial Conflict
- The Postwar Strike Wave, 1945 and 1946
- A New Industrial Relations System
- Chapter 19: Retrenchment, Cold War, and Consolidation, 1946 to 1955
- Labor, Taft-Hartley, and Politics
- The Purge of Labor's Left Wing
- A United Labor Movement
- AFL-CIO: A "Sleepy Monopoly"
- Chapter 20: Turbulent Years, 1955 to 1972
- The Onset of Organized Labor's Decline
- Corruption and Deepening Conflict
- Automation and Alienation
- Labor, Civil Rights, and the Great Society
- The Rise of Public Employee Unionism
- War and Division
- Chapter 21: The Great Reversal: Workers and Unions, 1973 to 1994
- Economic Crisis and Its Aftermath
- Restructuring the Labor Force
- The Rise of Conservative Politics and Neoliberal Policy
- The Emerging Crisis of Unionism.
- Harbingers of Deepening Crisis: Mass Production and Transportation
- Chapter 22: Workers and Unions at the Millennium
- Rising Resistance and Its Limitations
- A Change of Direction for Labor
- Economic Troubles, Political Setbacks, and War
- Improvising in Difficult Times
- Walmart, the "Fissured Workplace," and Weakened Regulation
- Dissension, Schism, and Political Breakthrough
- Chapter 23: A Precarious Moment
- Bailouts, Job Insecurity, and Lowered Labor Standards
- Toward an Unequal Society
- The Obama Presidency's Mixed Legacy
- A Renewed Assault on Unions and Collective Bargaining
- Death Throes or Birth Pangs?
- Epilogue: An Uncharted Path
- Further Reading
- General
- Women, Gender, Sexuality
- Race and Ethnicity
- Law, Politics, and Public Policy
- Southern Workers
- The Pre-Modern Era: To the 1870s
- The Era of the Knights of Labor and the American Federation of Labor: The 1870s to 1919
- The Interwar Years, 1919 to 1939
- The Maturation of the American Labor Movement
- Decline and Crisis: The Labor Movement since the 1970s
- Special Studies
- Biography and Autobiography
- Radicalism and Strikes
- Individual Unions and Industries
- Labor in Literature and Culture
- Recent History and Prospects
- Index
- End User License Agreement.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Dubofsky, Melvyn Labor in America
- ISBN:
- 9781118976876
- OCLC:
- 975487015
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