The American Labor Movement

A first-person history of the American labor movement - the growth of labor unions and the development of collective worker consciousness from the middle of the nineteenth century until the middle of the twentieth. A century of labor in primary sources. A selection of newspaper articles, government hearing transcripts, interviews, and other publications from the labor movement, its observers, and its dissenters, guided and framed by the author to clarify historical context. Brief sections from the Amoskeag Manufacturing Corporation of Manchester, New Hampshire, as well as labor and industry in other New England towns. Instances of both striking and strike-breaking.

Contains the following chapter titles:
Background of Discontent
Organization
Responses to Unionism
Weapons of Resistance
Organizing the Unorganized: The 1930s
Labor at Midcentury: Memories and Realities