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| Preface | |
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| Preface to the Sixth Edition | |
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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 Railroad 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 Union | |
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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, 1919-1922 | |
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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, 1922-1924 | |
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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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| Section 7(a) | |
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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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| 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 Unions, 1973-1992 | |
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| An End to Economic Growth? | |
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| Restructuring the Labor Force | |
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| Labor and Politics | |
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| The Rise of Public Employee Unionism | |
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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 Dim Future for Labor? | |
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| Hope and Despair: Workers and Unions since 1993 | |
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| Labor and Politics | |
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| Jobs and Prosperity for All? | |
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| A Rough Ride | |
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| A New Labor-Left Alliance | |
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| September 11, 2001, National Crisis, and Labor | |
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| A New Unionism | |
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| Hard and Dangerous Work | |
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| Whither Labor? | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Index | |