CONTENTS
List of Illustrations
Labor in America:
A History
Melvyn Dubofsky
Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History & Sociology, Binghamton University
and
Joseph A. McCartin
Professor of History, Georgetown University
Ninth Edition
This edition first published 2017
2017 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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Harlan Davidson, Inc. (4e, 1984; 5e, 1993; 6e, 1999; 7e, 2004; 8e, 2010)
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Dubofsky, Melvyn, 1934- author. | McCartin, Joseph Anthony, author.
Title: Labor in America : a history / Melvyn Dubofsky and Joseph A. McCartin.
Description: 9th edition. | Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, [2017] | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016043343| ISBN 9781118976845 (cloth) | ISBN 9781118976852 (pbk.)
Subjects: LCSH: LaborUnited StatesHistory. | Working classUnited StatesHistory. | Labor unionsUnited StatesHistory.
Classification: LCC HD8066 .D8 2017 | DDC 331.880973dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016043343
Cover images: kledge/Getty Images, Inc.; Granger, NYC/The Granger Collection
FIGURES
Certificate of indenture, 1767 |
An African American servant at work tending to a white master |
Notice of a mechanics' meeting, 1774 |
Mechanics' Association membership certificate, 1800 |
Ship carpenter at work, 1807 |
By Hammer and Hand All Arts Do Stand. |
Bricklayers' bill of prices, 1814 |
Ely Moore, leader of the General Trades' Union and the National Trades' Union |
Women shoe workers from Lynn, Massachusetts, striking for better wages, 1860 |
Lowell, Massachusetts, a model mill town |
William Sylvis, president of the National Labor Union |
Labor Day parade, New York City, September 5, 1882 |
Men and women harass a blackleg strikebreaker during a coal miners' strike in Ohio, 1880s |
Founders of the Knights of Labor depicted holding a portrait of their organization's first leader, Uriah S. Stephens |
Terence V. Powderly, leader of the Knights of Labor |
Terence Powderly and Frank J. Farrell at the tenth annual convention of the Knights of Labor, 1886 |
Samuel Gompers, first leader of the American Federation of Labor, 1886 |
The Battle of Homestead, 1892 |
United Mine Workers membership certificate, 1890s |
President Woodrow Wilson, Samuel Gompers, and William B. Wilson, 1916 |
Eugene V. Debs, Socialist Party leader |
Members of the Massachusetts state militia keep strikers away from the mills during the Lawrence textile strike, 1912 |
IWW leaders: William D. Big Bill Haywood, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, and Carlo Tresca |
A sample of IWW propaganda stickers |
Samuel Gompers in a World War I propaganda picture, circa 1918 |
Mary Harris Mother Jones, a legendary labor activist, and William Z. Foster, leader of Communist Party |
A 1920s poster from the Goodyear Company |
Robert Fechner, director of the Civil Conservation Corps (CCC), President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Henry Wallace, US secretary of agriculture, with formerly unemployed CCC workers |
CIO founders Sidney Hillman, John L. Lewis, and Philip Murray, 1937 |
Sit-down strikers hanging effigies from the windows of Fisher Body Plant No. 2 in Flint, Michigan, January 1937 |
Organizers Richard Frankenstein and Walter Reuther after being beaten by Ford servicemen while trying to hand out union circulars at the Dearborn plant, May 26, 1937 |
Sidney Hillman, president of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America |
Women at work on an assembly line, Douglas Aircraft bomber plant, Long Beach, California |
American labor supports the war effort: Philip Murray of the CIO and William Green of the AFL |
John L. Lewis surveys the damage after a mine disaster in West Frankfurt, Illinois |
George Meany and Walter Reuther clasping hands at the merger of the AFL and CIO |
Teamster leaders James R. Hoffa and Frank Fitzsimmons, 1966 |
Cesar Chavez, the first successful organizer of farmworkers |
Chavez's union colleague, Dolores Huerta, signaling workers to strike, near Delano, California |
A solidarity rally for PATCO strikers, Houston, Texas, 1981 |
Lane Kirkland, president of the AFL-CIO, at Dartmouth College, 1982 |
John Sweeney, of the Service Employees International Union |
Linda Chavez-Thompson, of the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees |
Manuel Morales marching in a massive May Day march in downtown Los Angeles, May 1, 2006 |
Andy Stern, SEIU president, 2009 |
Members of the United Automobile Workers in Canton, Michigan, 2009 |
President Barack Obama addresses the AFL-CIO, 2009 |
AFL-CIO leaders Richard Trumka, Liz Shuler, and Tefere Gebre |
Mary Kay Henry, Service Employees International Union president, with members of her union, 2015 |
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