United States
The Armies of Labor Chapter Chapter Title Page I. The Background 1 II. Formative Years 19 III. Transition Years 40 IV. Amalgamation 65 V. Federation 87 VI. The Trade Union 112 VII. The Railway Brotherhoods 133 VIII. Issues and Warfare 168 IX. The New Terrorism: The I. W. W. 18...
In a democracy it is possible for organized labor to extend its influence far beyond the confines of a mere trade policy. It can move the political mechanism directly in proport...
8. Chapter 8The solidarity and statesmanship of the trade unions reached perfection in the railway "Brotherhoods." Of these the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers ¹ is the oldest and most...
10. Chapter 10It was not to be expected that the field of organized labor would be left undisputed to the moderation of the trade union after its triumph over the extreme methods of the Knigh...
5. Chapter 5After Appomattox, every one seemed bent on finding a short cut to opulence. To foreign observers, the United States was then simply a scrambling mass of selfish units, for there...
6. Chapter 6Experience and events had now paved the way for that vast centralization of industry which characterizes the business world of the present era. The terms sugar, coffee, steel, t...
4. Chapter 4With the panic of 1837 the mills were closed, thousands of unemployed workers were thrown upon private charity, and, in the long years of depression which followed, trade unioni...
7. Chapter 7The trade union ¹ forms the foundation upon which the whole edifice of the American Federation of Labor is built. Like the Federation, each particular trade union has a triparti...
3. Chapter 3America did not become a cisatlantic Britain, as some of the colonial adventurers had hoped. A wider destiny awaited her. Here were economic conditions which upset all notions o...
9. Chapter 9There has been an enormous expansion in the demands of the unions since the early days of the Philadelphia cordwainers; yet these demands involve the same fundamental issues reg...
2. Chapter 2Three momentous things symbolize the era that begins its cycle with the memorable year of 1776: the Declaration of Independence, the steam engine, and Adam Smith's book, The Wea...
1. Chapter 1The Armies of Labor Chapter Chapter Title Page I. The Background 1 II. Formative Years 19 III. Transition Years 40 IV. Amalgamation 65 V. Federation 87 VI. The Trade Union 112 V...