Labor's Story In The United States / Edition 1

by Philip Nicholson

Overview

In this, the first broad historical overview of labor in the United States in twenty years, Philip Nicholson examines anew the questions, the villains, the heroes, and the broad social and cultural issues that relate to work in America. Unlike recent books that have covered labor in the twentieth century, Labor's Story in the United States looks at the landscape of labor from the earliest colonial times to the present. In clear, unpretentious language, Nicholson considers American labor history from the perspective of institutions and people: the rise of unions; the struggles over slavery, wages, and child labor; and public and private responses to union organizing. Throughout, the book focuses on the integral relationship between the strength of labor and the growth of democracy, painting a vivid picture of the strength of labor movements and how they helped make the United States what it is today. Labor's Story in the United States will become an indispensable source for scholars and students.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781592132393
Publisher:	Temple University Press
Publication date:	02/09/2004
Series:	Labor In Crisis
Edition description:	1
Pages:	384
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x 1.00(d)

Table of Contents

	Preface	ix
	Acknowledgments	xv
1.	European and Colonial Foundations to 1760	1
2.	Labor and Liberty in the Formation of the Nation, 1760-1830	29
3.	Great Contrasts: Factory and Field, Slavery and Democracy, Civil War, 1830-1865	59
4.	The Heroic Age of Labor, "The Days of the Martyrs and the Saints," 1865-1893	95
5.	Challenges and Responses, 1893-1913	129
6.	Bang, Boom, and Bust: The Great War, Jazz Age, and Great Crash, 1914-1932	169
7.	Labor Valued: The New Deal and War, 1933-1945	205
8.	Constructing Consensus: Labor in the Cold War, 1945-1968	239
9.	Labor and the Corporate State, 1969-1992	279
10.	Labor's Recent Past and the Future of Democracy	315
	Bibliography	337
	Index	353