Labor in America : a history /
Melvyn Dubofsky, Foster Rhea Dulles.
- 8th edition
- Wheeling, Ill. : Harlan Davidson, c2010.
- xi, 479 pages, 30 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Colonial America -- Life and labor in the colonies -- Workers, politics, and revolution -- First unions -- Early unions -- Law vs. labor -- Growth of labor organization -- Workingmen's parties -- Leadership -- Political action -- Labor strength in the 1830s -- Union growth -- National labor movement? -- Urge to strike -- Employer counterattack -- National Trades Union -- Decline of unionism -- Impact of industrialism -- Industrialism, technological change, and reform -- Rebuilding a union movement -- Toward national organization -- National Labor Union -- NLU and social reform -- Depression and union decline -- Era of upheaval -- Unrest and conflict -- Great railroad strikes -- Haymarket Riot -- Rise and decline of the Knights of Labor -- Origins of the Knights of Labor -- Rise of the Knights -- Decline of the Knights -- American Federation of Labor -- Triumph of business union -- Samuel Gompers and the new unionism -- Emergence of the AFL -- AFL principles and policies -- Homestead and Pullman -- Great Pullman strike and boycott -- Labor, populism, and socialism -- Labor in ebb tide -- Progressive era -- Employers and unions : a new understanding -- Anthracite Coal Strike, 1902 -- Employers fight back -- AFL and political action -- Organizing immigrant workers -- Thunder on the Left -- Wobblies -- Spirit of the IWW -- Lawrence strike -- Repressing the IWW, 1913-1919 -- Meaning of the WWI -- First World War and after -- Postwar labor upheaval -- Year of strikes, 1919 -- Labor militancy -- Labor in retreat -- American plan and the open shop -- Welfare capitalism -- Labor and insurgent politics -- AFL after Gompers -- Demoralization of organized labor -- New Deal -- Section 7(a) -- New unionism and its limits -- Wagner Act -- New Deal political order -- Rise of the Congress of Industrial Organizations -- John L. Lewis and the CIO -- Impact of the CIO -- Labor and politics -- War, Lewis, and the election of 1940 -- Second World War -- National War Labor Board -- 1945-1946 strike wave -- New industrial relations system -- From Taft-Hartley to the merger of the AFL and the CIO -- Labor, Taft-Hartley, and politics -- United labor movement -- AFL-CIO : a "sleepy monopoly" -- Disappointed hopes -- Labor's decline -- Corruption, politics, and labor's travail -- Race, war, and agricultural workers -- Satisfied labor movement -- Hard times : workers and unions, 1973-1992 -- End to economic growth? -- Restructuring the labor force -- Rise of public employee unionism -- Labor and politics -- Crisis of unionism -- Lane Kirkland and dashed hopes -- Union troubles in mass-production industries -- Deregulation and union decline in transportation -- Mixed bag -- New labor-Left alliance -- Dim future for labor? -- Hope and despair : workers and unions since 1993 -- Labor and politics -- New unionism -- Hard and dangerous work -- New war economy -- Toward an unequal society -- Wal-Mart effect -- Labor's travails cause dissension -- Triumph and tribulation -- Whither labor? The The A An An The The The The The An The The The The The The The The The The The The The The The The The The A The The The The The The The A A A An The The A A A A A The
Even since the last edition of this text was released in 2004, unions have continued to shed members; union membership in the private sector of the economy has fallen to levels not seen since the nineteenth century. The forces of economic liberalization (neo-liberalism), capital mobility, and globalization have affected measurably the material standard of living enjoyed by workers in the United States, and mass immigration from the Southern Hemisphere and Asia has continued to restructure the domestic labor force. Yet even in the face of anti-union legislation, a continuing decline in the number of organized workers, and the fear of stateless, if not faceless terrorism, the shadow of "9/11" in which we still live, the author has hewn to the lines laid out in the previous seven in seeking to encourage today's students of labor history to learn about those who built the United States and who will shape its future. In addition to taking the narrative right up to the present, a recent history that includes the election of 2008 as well as the tumultuous blow suffered by the U.S. and world economy in 2008-09, this eighth edition features an entirely new photographs and a complete overhauling of the book's Further Readings section in order to note the very best works from the profuse recent scholarship that explores the history of working people in all its diversity
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