From the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend,9781565844445

From the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend

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ISBN13: 9781565844445
ISBN10: 1565844440
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2001-10-01
Publisher(s): New Pr
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Summary

In a short history of labor in the United States, the authors capture the full sweep of working people's struggles, from indentured servants in the 7th-century Chesapeake area to high-tech workers in contemporary Silicon Valley. of illustrations.

Author Biography

A. B. Chitty works as a librarian systems officer at Queens College of the City of New York.

Table of Contents

Foreword and Acknowledgements xi
List of Illustrations
xiv
List of Abbreviations
xv
Labor in Colonial America: The Bound and the Free
1(23)
Legacies of Conquest
4(2)
Indentured Labor in British Colonies
6(3)
Slavery
9(4)
Free Labor
13(3)
Unruly Labor
16(8)
The American Revolution
24(28)
From Resistance to Independence
25(6)
The People's War and the Gentlemen's Republic
31(12)
Republican Legacies
43(9)
Salvery and Freedom in the New Republic
52(33)
``If You Can't Fight, Kick''
54(5)
Wage Workers and Activism
59(7)
Solidarity and Fragmentation
66(9)
Westward Expansion and Irrepressible Conflict
75(10)
Civil War and Reconstruction
85(25)
The Civil War
86(6)
Southern Reconstruction and Counterrevolution
92(5)
Labor Movements and Struggles
97(7)
Whose Government?
104(6)
Labor Versus Monopoly in the Gilded Age
110(28)
Industrial Capitalism: Consolidation and Crisis
113(3)
The Working Classes
116(5)
The Knights of Labor
121(6)
The American Federation of Labor
127(7)
Populism and Racism
134(4)
Labor and Empire
138(36)
Empire Abroad, Empire at Home
138(7)
The Labor Movement in the Progressive Era
145(15)
The Great War
160(5)
The War's Aftermath
165(9)
America, Inc.
174(18)
The Roaring Twenties
175(8)
The Labor Movement of the Twenties
183(3)
Early Years of the Great Depression
186(3)
Labor Rising
189(3)
Labor on the March
192(29)
Grassroots Unionism
194(8)
The Rise of the CIO
202(13)
Whose America?
215(6)
Hot War, Cold War
221(25)
America at War
224(7)
The Postwar World
231(9)
``Big Labor''
240(6)
The Sixties
246(30)
In the Spirit of Montgomery
247(5)
``Power to the People''
252(7)
The Sixties in the Workplace
259(11)
A House Divided
270(6)
Hard Times
276(32)
Lean and Mean
277(5)
Race to the Bottom
282(10)
Fighting Back
292(16)
Brave New World
308(23)
Making Change
311(8)
Steps Forward, Steps Back
319(9)
Turn of the Century
328(3)
Epilogue 331(2)
Suggested Reading 333(12)
Index 345

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