The Labor History Reader

by Leab, Daniel J.

• ISBN13: 9780252011979
• ISBN10: 025201197X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1985-04-01
• Publisher: Univ of Illinois Pr

Table of Contents

Foreword	xi
Sidney Fine
Preface	xiii
Richard B. Morris
Introduction	xvii
David Brody
Herbert G. Gutman
The Old Labor History and the New: In Search of the American Working Class	1	(27)
David Brody
The Study of Social Mobility: Ideological Assumptions and Conceptual Bias	28	(14)
James A. Henretta
The Failure of Female Factory Labor in Colonial Boston	42	(24)
Gary B. Nash
The Mechanics and the Jeffersonians: New York, 1789-1801	66	(30)
Alfred Young
Should Labor Have Supported Jackson?; Or Questions the Quantitative Studies Do Not Answer	96	(11)
Edward Pessen
Workers' Control of Machine Production in the Nineteenth Century	107	(25)
David Montgomery
Trouble on the Railroads in 1873-1874: Prelude to the 1877 Crisis?	132	(21)
Herbert G. Gutman
Adolph Strasser and the Origins of Pure and Simple Trade Unionism	153	(13)
H. M. Gitelman
Trade Unionism in the British and U.S. Steel Industries, 1888-1914: A Comparative Study	166	(31)
James Holt
Black Workers and Labor Unions in Birmingham, Alabama, 1897-1904	197	(33)
Paul B. Worthman
The Origins of Western Working-Class Radicalism, 1890-1905	230	(24)
Melvyn Dubofsky
The Passaic Strike of 1912 and the Two I.W.W.s	254	(15)
Michael H. Ebner
Organizing the Unorganizable: Three Jewish Women and Their Union	269	(19)
Alice Kessler-Harris
Affluence for Whom? --- Another Look at Prosperity and the Working Classes in the 1920s	288	(29)
Frank Stricker
``United We Eat'': The Creation and Organization of the Unemployed Councils in 1930	317	(16)
Daniel J. Leab
Origins of the Sit-Down Era: Worker Militancy and Innovation in the Rubber Industry, 1934-1938	333	(28)
Daniel Nelson
Frank Murphy, the Thornhill Decision, and Picketing as Free Speech	361	(22)
Sidney Fine
Delivering the Goods: Industrial Unionism during World War II	383	(24)
Joshua Freeman
Women Workers and the UAW in the Post-World War II Period: 1945-1954	407	(26)
Nancy Gabin
Work and Community Life in a Southern Textile Town	433	(22)
Dale Newman
Afterthoughts	455	(12)
Notes on Contributors	467