Workers unite! : the American labor movement / Kevin Hillstrom.
Hillstrom, Kevin, 1963-
2011
HD8066 .H55 2011 (Mapit)
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Title Workers unite! : the American labor movement / Kevin Hillstrom.
Author Hillstrom, Kevin, 1963-
ISBN 9780780811300
0780811305
Imprint Detroit, MI : Omnigraphics, c2011.
Language English
Description xvi, 236 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Call Number HD8066 .H55 2011
Dewey Decimal Classification 331.880973
Summary "Explains the history of the American labor movement from its earliest origins through 19th-century industrialization, the growth of the labor movement, the current declining influence of labor, and efforts to revitalize American unions. Features include a narrative overview, biographies, primary sources, chronology, glossary, bibliography, and index"--Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Series Defining moments.
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Narrative overview. American workers in an industrializing world ; Sweat and blood ; Radicals, progressives, and the working man ; The new deal lifts unions ; Banner days for American unions ; Down a path of permanent decline?
Biographies. Eugene v. Debs (labor organizer, Socialist party of America) ; Samuel Gompers (founder and president, American Federation of Labor) ; William "Big Bill" Haywood (Western Federation of Miners and International Workers of the World) ; Jimmy Hoffa (president, International Brotherhood of Teamsters) ; Mary Harris "Mother" Jones ; John L. Lewis (president, United Mine Workers of America; founder, Congress of Industrial Organizations) ; George Meany (American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations) ; Walter P Reuther (United Auto Workers).

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