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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
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| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Priscilla Murolo; A B Chitty |
| ISBN: | 1565844440 9781565844445 1565847768 9781565847767 |
| OCLC Number: | 46683609 |
| Description: | xx, 364 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Ch. 1. Labor in colonial America : the bound and the free -- Legacies of conquest -- Indentured labor in British colonies -- Slavery -- Free labor -- Unruly labor -- Ch. 2. The American Revolution -- From resistance to independence -- The people's war and the gentlemen's republic -- Republican legacies -- Ch. 3. Slavery and freedom in the new republic -- "If you can't fight, kick" -- Wage workers and activism -- Solidarity and fragmentation -- Westward expansion and irrepressible conflict -- Ch. 4. Civil War and Reconstruction -- The Civil War -- Southern Reconstruction and counterrevolution -- Labor movements and struggles -- Whose government? -- Ch. 5. Labor versus monopoly in the Gilded Age -- Industrial capitalism : consolidation and crisis -- The working classes -- The Knights of Labor -- The American Federation of Labor -- Populism and racism -- Ch. 6. Labor and empire -- Empire abroad, empire at home -- The labor movement in the Progressive era -- The Great War -- The war's aftermath -- Ch. 7. America, Inc. -- The roaring twenties -- The labor movement of the twenties -- Early years of the Great Depression -- Labor rising -- Ch. 8. Labor on the march -- Grassroots unionism -- The rise of the CIO -- Whose America? -- Ch. 9. Hot war, Cold War -- America at war -- The postwar world -- "Big labor" -- Ch. 10. The sixties -- In the spirit of Montgomery -- "Power to the people" -- The sixties in the workplace -- A house divided -- Ch. 11. Hard times -- Lean and mean -- Race to the bottom -- Fighting back -- Ch. 12. Brave new world -- Making change -- Steps forward, steps back -- Turn of the century. |
| Responsibility: | Priscilla Murolo and A.B. Chitty ; illustrations by Joe Sacco. |
Abstract:
"From the folks Who Brought You the Weekend is an history of labor in the United States, capturing the full range of working people's struggles, from indentured servants and slaves in the seventeenth-century Chesapeake to high-tech workers in contemporary Silicon Valley."--BOOK JACKET.
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