There is power in a union : the epic story of labor in America
This book is a history of American labor from the dawn of the industrial age to the present day. From the textile mills of Lowell, Massachusetts, the first real factories in America, to the triumph of unions in the twentieth-century and their waning influence today, the contest between labor and capital for their share of American bounty has shaped our national experience. Here the author's ambition is to show the vital accomplishments of organized labor in that time and illuminate its central role in our social, political, economic, and cultural evolution. This is an epic character-driven narrative that locates this struggle for security and dignity in all its various settings on picket lines and in union halls, jails, assembly lines, corporate boardrooms, the courts, the halls of Congress, and the White House. Here the author demonstrates the urgency of the fight for fairness and economic democracy in a struggle that remains especially urgent today when ordinary Americans are so anxious and beset by economic woes
Nonfiction
xii, 772 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
9780385526296, 9780307389763, 0385526296, 0307389766
495271379
The oppressing hand of avarice
Hell with the lid off
We mean to have eight hours
Pullman's town
Industrial democracy
We shall be all
Dynamite
Let us have peace and make cars
Spies, crooks, and congressmen
If America's soul becomes poisoned
A time for choosing