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Railroad brotherhoods' dynamic impact on American labor relations and national politics

The rise and fall of America's first truly inter-racial labour union

A classic since its original publication, Women Have Always Worked brought much-needed insight into the ways work has shaped female lives and sensibilities. Beginning in the colonial era, Alice Kessler-Harris looks at the public and private work spheres of diverse groups of women—housewives and trade unionists, immigrants and African Americans, professionals and menial laborers, and women from across the class spectrum. She delves into issues ranging from the gendered nature of the success ethic to the social activism and the meaning of citizenship for female wage workers. This second edition adds artwork and features significant updates. A new chapter by Kessler-Harris follows women into the early twenty-first century as they confront barriers of race, sex, and class to earn positions in the new information society.

A book at the intersection of business, labor, and women's history.

A study of James P Cannon's early years (1890-1928) that details how the life of a Wobbly hobo agitator gave way to leadership in the emerging communist underground of the 1919 era.

The transformation of slavery and free labour in the Upper South

A spectacular example of collective violence, the Great Strikes of 1877 was the first national strike and the first major strikes against the railroad industry. This title investigates topics ranging from long-term effects on state militias and national guard units, to developing tension between capitalism and racial equality in United States.

Measuring the impact of the Chicago Teachers Union on public education in Chicago

How the Cold War affected local-level union politics

Explores the effect of race, gender, and nationality in the long struggle for economic justice by men and women of the Pullman Company.

An essential contribution to the history of anticommunism and post-war conservatism

Gathers Ernesto Galarza's key writings, reflecting a constructive concern for the working class in the face of America's growing influence over Mexico's economic system.

Reveals the many ways in which identities, economies, and geographies are changing as Latin Americans adjust to their new homes, jobs, and communities.

How two southern ministers preached and practiced a vision of a more democratic America

A stimulating study of how antiunionism has shaped the hearts and minds of American workers

A detailed account of labor corruption in the 1930s and the zealous journalist who railed against it

How the Cold War affected local-level union politics

The role of gender in the history of the working class world

Exploring a path not taken in Appalachian economic development--one that might have led away from underdevelopment

Exploring the tight ties between wilderness use and class

In November 1933, the Socialist Party of Bridgeport, Connecticut won a stunning victory in the municipal election, putting slate roofer Jasper McLevy in the mayor's seat. This book probes the factors that led to this electoral victory, uncovering a legacy of activist unionism, and business manipulation of local politics and taxes.

Explores developments affecting American workers. This title explains how the ideals of free labor, free speech, freedom of association, and freedom of contract have been interpreted and canonized in ways that unfailingly reduce the capacity for workers' collective action while silently removing impediments to employers coercion of workers.

Drawing on a substantial number of oral history interviews as well as on manuscript sources, local newspapers, and government documents, this title explores black men and women's changing relationship to industrial work in three sawmill communities (Elizabethtown, South Carolina, Chapman, Alabama, and Bogalusa, Louisiana).

Traces the shifting occupational structures and work choices that facilitated the emergence of a white-collar workforce. This title describes the educational goals, workplace cultures, leisure activities, and living situations that melded disparate groups of young men and women into a new class of clerks and salespeople.

Traces the political journey of a leading worker radical whose life and experiences encapsulate radicalism's rise and fall in the United States. Integrating indigenous and international factors that determined the fate of American communism, this book provides an understanding of the basis for radicalism among twentieth-century American workers.