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Authors: Melvyn Dubofsky
ISBN-13: 9780882952734, ISBN-10: 0882952730
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Harlan Davidson, Inc.
Date Published: January 2010
Edition: 8th Edition

Author Biography: Melvyn Dubofsky

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	Preface	IX
	Preface to the Sixth Edition	XI
1.	Colonial America	1
	Life and Labor in the Colonies	6
	Workers, Politics and Revolution	15
2.	The First Unions	20
	Early Unions	23
	Law vs. Labor	28
	Growth of Labor Organization	30
3.	The Workingmen's Parties	33
	Leadership	37
	Political Action	42
4.	Labor Strength in the 1830s	49
	Union Growth	50
	A National Labor Movement?	54
	An Urge to Strike	55
	An Employer Counterattack	59
	The National Trades Union	61
	The Decline of Unionism	65
5.	The Impact of Industrialism	67
	Industrialism, Technological Change, and Reform	70
	Rebuilding a Union Movement	80
6.	Toward National Organization	87
	The National Labor Union	92
	The NLU and Social Reform	97
	Depression and Union Decline	102
7.	An Era Of Upheaval	104
	Unrest and Conflict	105
	The Great Railroad Strikes	108
	The Haymarket Riot	112
8.	The Rise and Decline of the Knights of Labor	116
	Origins of the Knights of Labor	118
	The Rise of the Knights	127
	The Decline of the Knights	134
9.	The American Federation of Labor	138
	Triumph of Business Union	139
	Samuel Gompers and the New Unionism	141
	Emergence of the AFL	145
	AFL Principles and Policies	148
10.	Homestead and Pullman	153
	The Great Pullman Strike and Boycott	158
	Labor, Populism, and Socialism	166
	Labor in Ebb Tide	169
11.	The Progressive Era	171
	Employers and Unions: A New Understanding	173
	The Anthracite Coal Strike, 1902	175
	Employers Fight Back	180
	AFL and Political Action	186
	Organizing Immigrant Workers	191
12.	Thunder on the Left	195
	The Wobblies	196
	The Spirit of the IWW	200
	The Lawrence Strike	201
	Repressing the IWW, 1913-1919	205
	The Meaning of the IWW	208
13.	The First World War--And After	210
	Postwar Labor Upheaval	215
	Year of Strikes, 1919	217
	Labor Militancy, 1919-1922	224
14.	Labor in Retreat	227
	The American Plan and the Open Shop	231
	Welfare Capitalism	235
	Labor and Insurgent Politics, 1922-1924	239
	The AFL after Gompers	241
	The Demoralization of Organized Labor	244
15.	The New Deal	249
	Section 7(a)	250
	A New Unionism and Its Limits	252
	The Wagner Act	258
	The New Deal Political Order	261
16.	The Rise of the Congress of Industrial Organizations	272
	John L. Lewis and the CIO	277
	The Impact of the CIO	289
17.	Labor and Politics	294
	War, Lewis, and the Election of 1940	300
18.	The Second World War	312
	The National War Labor Board	323
	The 1945-1946 Strike Wave	326
	A New Industrial Relations System	333
19.	From Taft-Hartley to the Merger of the AFL and the CIO	335
	Labor, Taft-Hartley, and Politics	339
	A United Labor Movement	348
	AFL-CIO: A "Sleepy Monopoly"	352
20.	Disappointed Hopes	354
	Labor's Decline	355
	Corruption, Politics, and Labor's Travail	358
	Race, War, and Agricultural Workers	371
	A Satisfied Labor Movement	374
21.	Hard Times: Workers and Unions, 1973-1992	376
	An End to Economic Growth?	377
	Restructuring the Labor Force	379
	Labor and Politics	383
	The Rise of Public Employee Unionism	391
	The Crisis of Unionism	393
	Lane Kirkland and Dashed Hopes	397
	Union Troubles in Mass-Production Industries	400
	Deregulation and Union Decline in Transportation	402
	A Mixed Bag	404
	A Dim Future for Labor?	406
22.	Hope and Despair: Workers and Unions since 1993	407
	Labor and Politics	408
	Jobs and Prosperity for All?	409
	A Rough Ride	412
	A New Labor-Left Alliance	417
	September 11, 2001, National Crisis, and Labor	419
	A New Unionism	424
	Hard and Dangerous Work	426
	Whither Labor?	428
	Further Reading	429
	Index	457

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