This book, designed to give a survey history of American labor from colonial times to the present, is uniquely well suited to speak to the concerns of today s teachers and students. As issues of growing inequality, stagnating incomes, declining unionization, and exacerbated job insecurity have increasingly come to define working life over the last 20 years, a new generation of students and teachers is beginning to seek to understand labor and its place and ponder seriously its future in American life. Like its predecessors, this ninth edition of our classic survey of American labor is designed to introduce readers to the subject in an engaging, accessible way. INDICE: Acknowledgments .Preface .1. Conditions of Labor in Colonial America .Life and Labor in the Colonies .Workers, Politics, and Revolution .2. Varieties of Worker Resistance and the Emergence of the First Unions .Origins of Worker Organization .Early Unions .Law vs. Labor .Growth of Labor Organization .3. The Growth of the Market and Labor s Response .The Workingmen s Parties .Leadership .Political Action .4. Labor Organizing in the 1830s .Union Growth .A National Labor Movement? .An Urge to Strike .An Employer Counterattack .The National Trade Union .The Decline of Unionism .5. Free Labor in an Emerging Industrial Economy .Industrialism, Technological Change, and Reform .Rebuilding a Union Movement .The Coming of War .6. Toward National Organization .The National Labor Union .The NLU and Social Reform .Depression and Union Decline .7. An Era of Upheaval .Unrest and Conflict .The Great Railroad Strikes .The Haymarket Riot .8. The Rise and Decline of the Knights of Labor .Origins of the Knights of Labor .The Rise of the Knights .The Decline of the Knights .9. The American Federation of Labor .Triumph of Business Unionism .Samuel Gompers and the New Union Model .Emergence of the AFL .AFL Principles and Policies .10. Labor Conflict and Economic Crisis in the 1890s .Worker Resistance and Industrial Conflict .Labor, Populism, and Socialism .Labor in Ebb Tide .11. The Labor Question in the Progressive Era .Employers and Unions Experiment with Accommodation .The Anthracite Coal Strike, 1902 .Employers Fight Back .AFL Political Action and a Nascent Labor–Democratic Alliance .Organizing Immigrant Workers .12. The Rise and Repression of Labor Radicalism .The Rise of the Wobblies .The Spirit of the IWW .13. The Great War s Ambiguous Legacy .Postwar Labor Upheaval .The Last Throes of Postwar Labor Militancy, 1919–1922 .14. Economic Change and Union Retreat in the Twenties .The American Plan and the Open Shop .Welfare Capitalism .The Failure of Insurgent Politics, 1922–1924 .The AFL after Gompers .The Demoralization of Organized Labor .15. The New Deal .Section 7(A) and the Revival of Organizing .The Wagner Act .The New Deal Political Order .16. The Rise of the Congress of Industrial Organizations .John L. Lewis and the CIO .The Impact of the CIO .17. Labor and the New Deal State .War, Lewis, and the Election of 1940 .18. World War II .The National War Labor Board and Labor Politics .Wartime Racial Conflict .The Postwar Strike Wave, 1945–1946 .A New Industrial Relations System .19. Retrenchment, Cold War, and Consolidation, 1946–1955 .Labor, Taft–Hartley, and Politics .The Purge of Labor s Left Wing .A United Labor Movement .AFL–CIO: A Sleepy Monopoly .20. Turbulent Years, 1955–1972 .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 .21. The Great Reversal: Workers and Unions, 1973 1994 .Economic Crisis and Its Aftermath .Restructuring the Labor Force .The Rise of Conservative Politics and Neo–liberal Policy .Harbinger of Deepening Crisis: Mass production and Transportation .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 .23. An Uncharted Path .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? .Further Reading .Index
- ISBN: 978-1-118-97684-5
- Editorial: John Wiley & Sons
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 496
- Fecha Publicación: 10/04/2017
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