Melvyn Dubofsky, Joseph A. Mccartin

Labor in America (eBook, PDF)

A History

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Produktbeschreibung

The gold standard of American labor history references, updated to include the latest political, social, and economic developments of the 2020s

Labor in America: A History, Tenth Edition, is a comprehensive and authoritative discussion of the U.S. labor movement from the colonial era to the 2020s. Authors Melvyn Dubofsky and Joseph A. McCartin have expanded and updated their landmark text, incorporating significant recent events and their implications for American labor. The book addresses the continuing and evolving challenges faced by American workers, critical developments in U.S. labor history, the impact of economic and political changes, and more.

Dubofsky and McCartin offer nuanced analyses of workers' collective actions, the formation of unions, and the role of labor in shaping American society. They provide a rich historical context and a detailed narrative of labor history for students, scholars, and laypersons alike. The authors also explain the likely impact of major contemporary trends on workers, including the rise of the gig economy, and discuss the most critical influences on modern U.S. labor.

An invaluable resource for anyone interested in the history and future of labor in the United States, Labor in America: A History will undoubtedly remain the gold standard in the field for years to come.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Seitenzahl: 499
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. August 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781394208258
• Artikelnr.: 75802703

Autorenporträt

Melvyn Dubofsky is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History & Sociology at Binghamton University, SUNY, USA. He has published extensively on labor history and has been a key figure in the field since the 1960s.

Joseph A. McCartin is a Professor of History and Executive Director of the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor & the Working Poor at Georgetown University. He has authored and edited numerous books on U.S. labor history and is a prominent voice in contemporary labor studies.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures ix
Preface to the Tenth Edition xii
Acknowledgments xiv
List of Abbreviations xv
1 Laboring a Nation into Being 1
Varieties of Bound Labor 2
Patterns of Control, Resistance, and Accommodation 10
The Agency of an Embryonic Working Class 13
Workers, Revolution, and Nation Building 18
2 Labor in the New Republic, 1790 to 1830 22
The Intensification of Agricultural Slavery 23
Scraping By: Race, Gender, Ethnicity, and the Limits of Resistance 27
From Journeymen's Organizations to Unions 36
3 The Protean Power of Organization, 1828 to 1840 45
Workingmen's Parties and the Emergence of a Politics of Labor 47
Labor Organizing in the 1830s 55
A National Labor Movement 58
Employer Counterattack 61
The National Trades' Union 63
The Decline of Unionism 66
4 Irrepressible Conflicts, 1840 to 1860 68
The Factory System and New Technologies 69
Immigration, Urbanization, and Divisions of Ethnicity and Race 73
Reformism and the Antebellum Working Class 76
Reawakening 10-hour Movement 80
Rebuilding Unions 82
The Coming of War 84
5 The Incomplete Triumph of Free Labor, 1861 to 1877 88
Wartime Conditions and Expanded Worker Organizing 89
Black Labor and Emancipation 92
The Limits of Reconstruction 94
National Labor Union 96
The Eight-Hour Movement, Cooperatives, and the Greenback-Labor Movement 103
Depression, Upheaval, and Fragmentation 107
6 The Great Upheaval, 1877 to 1887 111
Changing Economic and Social Context 115
The Origins and Rise of the Knights of Labor 118
The Knights of Labor at Flood Tide 126
The Decline of the Knights 130
Denouement: Haymarket, Richmond, and the Thibodaux Massacre 132
7 The Rise of the American Federation of Labor, 1886 to 1896 137
The Appeal of Trade Unionism: From Washerwomen to Skilled Craftsmen 137
Origins of the New Unionism 140
Samuel Gompers and the Founding of the American Federation of Labor 142
Autonomy, Skill, Race, and Gender: AFL Principles and Policies 146
The Homestead Strike, Depression, and the Limits of AFL Unionism 150
Eugene V. Debs and the Pullman Strike 155
Trade Unionism in Turbulent Times 160
8 Labor at the Dawn of the Progressive Era, 1896 to 1908 163
The Failure of Populism and the Birth of the Socialist Party 164
Progressive Era Experiments with Labor-Capital Cooperation 169
Labor's Limited Breakthrough: The Anthracite Coal Strike of 1902 172
Labor, Law, and Increasing Employer Resistance 177
AFL Political Action and a Nascent Labor-Democratic Alliance 181
9 Winds of Change, 1908 to 1916 184
Stirrings of Reform 184
Emergence of the New Unionism 186
The Radical Unionism of the Industrial Workers of the World 190
The Spirit of the IWW 193
The IWW's Challenge to the AFL 196
Labor Upheaval, Federal Action, and a Budding Political Alliance 201
10 War, Reform, and Reaction, 1914 to 1922 205
Repression of the IWW and the Socialist Party 206
Toward Industrial Democracy 209
African Americans, Women, and Mexican Immigrants 211
Peace in Europe, Class Conflict at Home 214
The Last Throes of Postwar Labor Militancy 220
The Open Shop American Plan and Labor's Deferred Dreams 223
11 The 1920s 227
Welfare Capitalism 230
The Failure of Insurgent Politics, 1922 to 1924 234
The AFL after Gompers 236
Crisis and Glimmers of Change: Miners, Clothing Workers, and Pullman
Porters 238
Depression and the Demoralization of Organized Labor 241
12 The New Deal and the Rebirth of Labor Militancy 245
Section 7(a) and the Revival of Organizing 246
The Wagner Act and the Second New Deal 253
The Emergence of the Committee for Industrial Organization (CIO) 260
Labor and Roosevelt's Reelection 268
13 The CIO and the New Deal Order 271
The Little Steel Strike, the Roosevelt Recession, and the Resurgence of the
AFL 278
The Consolidation of the CIO and a More Inclusive Union Membership 281
A Final New Deal Victory: The Fair Labor Standards Act 286
Labor and the Emerging New Deal Political Order 288
Encroaching War and the 1940 Election 291
14 World War II 295
Workers, Unions, and Wartime Labor Policy 298
The NWLB and Labor Politics 308
Race, Gender, and the Changing Union Movement 312
Demobilization and the Postwar Strike Wave 314
A New Industrial Relations System 319
15 Workers and Unions in the Postwar Era 321
Anticommunism, the Politics of 1948, and the Purge of the Labor Left 325
The Politics of Collective Action in the Emergent New Deal Order 328
The Heyday of Collective Bargaining 331
A United Labor Movement 333
The Travails of a Sleepy Monopoly 338
16 Labor's Long Sixties, 1960 to 1973 344
Confronting Automation, Alienation, and Structural Inequalities 348
Labor, Civil Rights, and the Great Society 351
Public Employees, Farmworkers, and a Diversifying Union Movement 353
War and Division 357
The Challenges of Solidarity 359
17 The Great Reversal, 1974 to 1990s 363
Economic Crisis and Its Aftermath 363
Restructuring the Labor Force 365
The Rise of Conservative Politics and Neoliberal Policy 369
The Reagan Revolution 375
The Post-Reagan Political Economy and Labor Policy 380
The Crisis of Unionism 384
18 Renewal and Setback, 1990s to 2009 388
The Impetus for Change 389
A Change of Direction for Labor 394
From Setbacks to Schism 398
Fissuring, Financialization, and the Great Recession 403
The Obama Moment 408
19 Resiliency and Disruption, 2009 to 2020 411
The Impact of the Great Recession 412
A Renewed Assault on Unions and Collective Bargaining 415
Obama's Mixed Legacy for Workers 418
Labor's Green Shoots 422
Workers, Unions, and the 2016 Presidential Election 428
The Trump Years 430
Labor and the 2020 Election 433
20 Making the Road by Walking: Labor in the 2020s 435
Further Reading 446
Index 449