Labor in America : A History.

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.

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