From the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend

by Murolo, Priscilla; Chitty, A. B.; Sacco, Joe

• ISBN13: 9781565844445
• ISBN10: 1565844440
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-10-01
• Publisher: New Pr

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