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Preface | |
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Colonial America | |
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Life and Labor in the Colonies | |
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Workers, Politics, and Revolution | |
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The First Unions | |
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Early Unions | |
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Law vs. Labor | |
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Growth of Labor Organization | |
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The Workingmen’s Parties | |
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Leadership | |
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Political Action | |
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Labor Strength in the 1830s | |
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Union Growth | |
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A National Labor Movement? | |
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An Urge to Strike | |
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An Employer Counterattack | |
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The National Trades Union | |
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The Decline of Unionism | |
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The Impact of Industrialism | |
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Industrialism, Technological Change, and Reform | |
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Rebuilding a Union Movement | |
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Toward National Organization | |
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The National Labor Union | |
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The NLU and Social Reform | |
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Depression and Union Decline | |
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An Era of Upheaval | |
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Unrest and Conflict | |
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The Great Railroads Strikes | |
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The Haymarket Riot | |
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The Rise and Decline of the Knights of Labor | |
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Origins of the Knights of Labor | |
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The Rise of the Knights | |
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The Decline of the Knights | |
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The American Federation of Labor | |
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Triumph of Business Unionism | |
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Samuel Gompers and the New Unionism | |
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Emergence of the AFL | |
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AFL Principles and Policies | |
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Homestead and Pullman | |
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The Great Pullman Strike and Boycott | |
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Labor, Populism, and Socialism | |
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Labor in Ebb Tide | |
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The Progressive Era | |
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Employers and Unions: A New Understanding | |
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The Anthracite Coal Strike, 1902 | |
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Employers Fight Back | |
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AFL and Political Action | |
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Organizing Immigrant Workers | |
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Thunder on the Left | |
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The Wobblies | |
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The Spirit of the IWW | |
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The Lawrence Strike | |
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Repressing the IWW, 1913-1919 | |
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The Meaning of the IWW | |
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The First World War - and After | |
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Postwar Labor Upheaval | |
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Year of Strikes, 1919 | |
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Labor Militancy | |
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Labor in Retreat | |
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The American Plan and the Open Shop | |
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Welfare Capitalism | |
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Labor and Insurgent Politics | |
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The AFL after Gompers | |
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The Demoralization of Organized Labor | |
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The New Deal | |
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A New Unionism and Its Limits | |
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The Wagner Act | |
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The New Deal Political Order | |
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The Rise of the Congress of Industrial Organizations | |
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John L. Lewis and the CIO | |
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The Impact of the CIO | |
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Labor and Politics | |
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War, Lewis, and the Election of 1940 | |
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The Second World War | |
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The National War Labor Board | |
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The 1945-1946 Strike Wave | |
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A New Industrial Relations System | |
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From Taft-Hartley to the Merger of the AFL and the CIO | |
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AFL and the CIO | |
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Labor, Taft-Hartley, and Politics | |
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A United Labor Movement | |
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AFL-CIO: A “Sleepy Monopoly” | |
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Disappointed Hopes | |
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Labor’s Decline | |
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Corruption, Politics, and Labor’s Travail | |
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Race, War, and Agricultural Workers | |
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A Satisfied Labor Movement | |
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Hard Times: Workers and Union, 1973-2000 | |
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An End to Economic Growth? | |
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Restructuring the Labor Force | |
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The Rise of Public Employee Unionism | |
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Labor and Politics | |
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The Crisis of Unionism | |
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Lane Kirkland and Dashed Hopes | |
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Union Troubles in Mass-Production Industries | |
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Deregulation and Union Decline in Transportation | |
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A Mixed Bag | |
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A New Labor-Left Alliance | |
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A Dim Future for Labor? | |
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Hope and Despair: Workers and Unions Since 2000 | |
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Labor and Politics | |
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A New Unionism | |
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Hard and Dangerous Work | |
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A New War Economy | |
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Toward an Unequal Society | |
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The Wal-Mart Effect | |
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Labor’s Travails Cause Dissension | |
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Triumph and Tribulation | |
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Whither Labor? | |
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Further Reading | |
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Index | |