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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.

Reveals the breadth of working-class black experiences and activities in Cleveland and the extent to which these were shaped by traditions and values brought from the South. The author shows how migrants' moves north established complex networks of kin and friends and infused the city with a highly visible southern African-American culture.

Is class outmoded as a basis for understanding labor history? This significant new collection emphatically says "No!" Touching on such subjects as migrant labor, religion, ethnicity, agricultural history, and gender, these thirteen essays by former students of David Montgomery--a preeminent leader in labor circles as well as in academia--demonstrate the sheer diversity of the field today.

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

Mary H. Blewett's award-winning look at the men and women working in the shoe factories of Lynn, Massachusetts, explores the sexual division of labor and gender relationships in the workplace.

A cogent analysis of North American trade unions' precipitous decline in recent decades

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