American Labor

A Documentary History

M. Dubofsky, J. McCartin, M. Dubofsky, J. McCartin

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2016
• Print ISBN:
  9780312295646
  9780312295653
• eBook ISBN:
  9781137044976
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Labour Economics
• Index: History

This single-volume comprehensive compilation of documents integrates institutional labour history (movements and trade unions) with aspects of social and cultural history, as well as charting changes in trade union and managerial practices, and integrating the economics and politics of labour history. It includes documents that treat household relations as well as industrial relations; women as domestic workers and unpaid household labour as well as factory workers; and African American, Hispanic American (especially Mexican and Mexican American), and Asian workers as well as white workers. American Labor offers readers an insight into the full spectrum historically of workers, their daily lives, and the movements that they created.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• 1. Labor in the Colonial and Early National Periods, to 1828
• 2. The Rise of Free Labor, the Factory System, and Trades Organization, 1828–1877
• 3. Workers in a Maturing and Industrial Society, 1877–1914
• 4. Wars, Depression, and the Struggle for Industrial Democracy, 1914–1947
• 5. The Era of the Postwar Social Contract, 1947–1973
• 6. Era of Economic Change and Union Decline, Since 1973