Labor in America: A History
Carrying the narrative to the year 2003 in the new edition of his history of Labor, a revised version of a work first authored by Foster Rhea Dulles, Dubofsky (State U. of New York at Binghamton) traces the politics and economics of laborers and labor unions, beginning his narrative in colonial America. Among the topics explored are the role of workers in the American Revolution, the growth of labor unions, the impact of industrialism, the rise of a national labor union, the impact of the...
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PrefaceIXPreface to the Sixth EditionXI1.Colonial America1Life and Labor in the Colonies6Workers, Politics and Revolution152.The First Unions20Early Unions23Law vs. Labor28Growth of Labor Organization303.The Workingmen's Parties33Leadership37Political Action424.Labor Strength in the 1830s49Union Growth50A National Labor Movement?54An Urge to Strike55An Employer Counterattack59The National Trades Union61The Decline of Unionism655.The Impact of Industrialism67Industrialism, Technological Change, and Reform70Rebuilding a Union Movement806.Toward National Organization87The National Labor Union92The NLU and Social Reform97Depression and Union Decline1027.An Era Of Upheaval104Unrest and Conflict105The Great Railroad Strikes108The Haymarket Riot1128.The Rise and Decline of the Knights of Labor116Origins of the Knights of Labor118The Rise of the Knights127The Decline of the Knights1349.The American Federation of Labor138Triumph of Business Union139Samuel Gompers and the New Unionism141Emergence of the AFL145AFL Principles and Policies14810.Homestead and Pullman153The Great Pullman Strike and Boycott158Labor, Populism, and Socialism166Labor in Ebb Tide16911.The Progressive Era171Employers and Unions: A New Understanding173The Anthracite Coal Strike, 1902175Employers Fight Back180AFL and Political Action186Organizing Immigrant Workers19112.Thunder on the Left195The Wobblies196The Spirit of the IWW200The Lawrence Strike201Repressing the IWW, 1913-1919205The Meaning of the IWW20813.The First World War--And After210Postwar Labor Upheaval215Year of Strikes, 1919217Labor Militancy, 1919-192222414.Labor in Retreat227The American Plan and the Open Shop231Welfare Capitalism235Labor and Insurgent Politics, 1922-1924239The AFL after Gompers241The Demoralization of Organized Labor24415.The New Deal249Section 7(a)250A New Unionism and Its Limits252The Wagner Act258The New Deal Political Order26116.The Rise of the Congress of Industrial Organizations272John L. Lewis and the CIO277The Impact of the CIO28917.Labor and Politics294War, Lewis, and the Election of 194030018.The Second World War312The National War Labor Board323The 1945-1946 Strike Wave326A New Industrial Relations System33319.From Taft-Hartley to the Merger of the AFL and the CIO335Labor, Taft-Hartley, and Politics339A United Labor Movement348AFL-CIO: A "Sleepy Monopoly"35220.Disappointed Hopes354Labor's Decline355Corruption, Politics, and Labor's Travail358Race, War, and Agricultural Workers371A Satisfied Labor Movement37421.Hard Times: Workers and Unions, 1973-1992376An End to Economic Growth?377Restructuring the Labor Force379Labor and Politics383The Rise of Public Employee Unionism391The Crisis of Unionism393Lane Kirkland and Dashed Hopes397Union Troubles in Mass-Production Industries400Deregulation and Union Decline in Transportation402A Mixed Bag404A Dim Future for Labor?40622.Hope and Despair: Workers and Unions since 1993407Labor and Politics408Jobs and Prosperity for All?409A Rough Ride412A New Labor-Left Alliance417September 11, 2001, National Crisis, and Labor419A New Unionism424Hard and Dangerous Work426Whither Labor?428Further Reading429Index457
