Labor in America : a history

목차 (Table of Contents)

• CONTENTS
• List of Figures = ix
• List of Abbreviations = xiii
• Acknowledgments = xv
• Preface = xvii
• 1 Conditions of Labor in Colonial America = 1
• Life and Labor in the Colonies = 8
• Workers, Politics, and Revolution = 15
• 2 Varieties of Worker Resistance and the Emergence of the First Unions = 19
• The Origins of Worker Organization = 20
• Early Unions = 24
• Law versus Labor = 28
• The Growth of Labor Organization = 30
• 3 The Growth of the Market and Labor's Response = 33
• Workingmen's Parties = 34
• Leadership = 38
• Political Action = 42
• 4 Labor Organizing in the 1830s = 47
• Union Growth = 48
• A National Labor Movement? = 50
• An Urge to Strike = 51
• An Employer Counterattack = 54
• The National Trades' Union = 56
• The Decline of Unionism = 60
• 5 Free Labor in an Emerging Industrial Economy = 62
• Industrialism, Technological Change, and Reform = 67
• Rebuilding a Union Movement = 75
• The Coming of War = 77
• 6 Toward National Organization = 81
• The National Labor Union = 87
• The NLU and Social Reform = 92
• Depression and Union Decline = 95
• 7 An Era of Upheaval = 97
• Unrest and Conflict = 98
• The Great Railroad Strikes = 101
• The Haymarket Square Riot = 104
• 8 The Rise and Decline of the Knights of Labor = 107
• The Origins of the Knights of Labor = 108
• The Rise of the Knights = 117
• The Decline of the Knights = 122
• 9 The American Federation of Labor = 126
• The Triumph of Business Unionism = 126
• Samuel Gompers and the New Union Model = 128
• The Emergence of the AFL = 132
• The Principles and Policies of the AFL = 135
• 10 Labor Conflict and Economic Crisis in the 1890s = 139
• Worker Resistance and Industrial Conflict = 140
• Labor, Populism, and Socialism = 151
• Labor at Ebb Tide = 153
• 11 The Labor Question in the Progressive Era = 155
• Employers and Unions Experiment with Accommodation = 157
• The Anthracite Coal Strike of 1902 = 158
• The Employers Fight Back = 163
• AFL Political Action and a Nascent Labor - Democratic Alliance = 167
• Organizing Immigrant Workers = 173
• 12 The Rise and Repression of Labor Radicalism = 177
• The Rise of the IWW = 178
• The Spirit of the IWW = 181
• The Lawrence Strike = 183
• The Decline, Repression, and Lasting Legacy of the IWW = 186
• 13 The Great War's Ambiguous Legacy = 191
• Postwar Labor Upheaval = 195
• The Last Throes of Postwar Labor Militancy, 1919 to 1922 = 202
• 14 Economic Change and Union Retreat in the 1920s = 206
• The American Plan and the Open Shop = 209
• Welfare Capitalism = 213
• The Failure of Insurgent Politics, 1922 to 1924 = 216
• The AFL after Gompers = 218
• The Demoralization of Organized Labor = 220
• 15 The New Deal = 223
• Section 7(a) and the Revival of Organizing = 223
• The Wagner Act = 230
• The New Deal Political Order = 233
• 16 The Rise of the Congress of Industrial Organizations = 242
• John L. Lewis and the CIO = 245
• The Impact of the CIO = 257
• 17 Labor and the New Deal State = 264
• War, Lewis, and the Election of 1940 = 269
• 18 World War Ⅱ = 279
• The NWLB and Labor Politics = 289
• Wartime Racial Conflict = 293
• The Postwar Strike Wave, 1945 and 1946 = 295
• A New Industrial Relations System = 300
• 19 Retrenchment, Cold War, and Consolidation, 1946 to 1955 = 302
• Labor, Taft-Hartley, and Politics = 305
• The Purge of Labor's Left Wing = 312
• A United Labor Movement = 314
• AFL-CIO : A "Sleepy Monopoly" = 319
• 20 Turbulent Years, 1955 to 1972 = 321
• The Onset of Organized Labor's Decline = 321
• Corruption and Deepening Conflict = 324
• Automation and Alienation = 330
• Labor, Civil Rights, and the Great Society = 334
• The Rise of Public Employee Unionism = 339
• War and Division = 341
• 21 The Great Reversal : Workers and Unions, 1973 to 1994 = 344
• Economic Crisis and Its Aftermath = 344
• Restructuring the Labor Force = 346
• The Rise of Conservative Politics and Neoliberal Policy = 350
• The Emerging Crisis of Unionism = 359
• Harbingers of Deepening Crisis : Mass Production and Transportation = 365
• 22 Workers and Unions at the Millennium = 369
• Rising Resistance and Its Limitations = 369
• A Change of Direction for Labor = 373
• Economic Troubles, Political Setbacks, and War = 376
• Improvising in Difficult Times = 380
• Walmart, the "Fissured Workplace," and Weakened Regulation = 382
• Dissension, Schism, and Political Breakthrough = 386
• 23 A Precarious Moment = 393
• Bailouts, Job Insecurity, and Lowered Labor Standards = 394
• Toward an Unequal Society = 397
• The Obama Presidency's Mixed Legacy = 399
• A Renewed Assault on Unions and Collective Bargaining = 404
• Death Throes or Birth Pangs? = 406
• Epilogue : An Uncharted Path = 413
• Further Reading = 416
• Index = 447