History of the Labor Movement in the United States

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Summary

Traces the history of labor unions and the labor movement from America's colonial era, through the Industrial Revolution, to the present

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Preface	p. 3
Henry Ford's Five-Dollar Eight-Hour Day	p. 5
An Unusual Strike in the Arizona Copper Mines	p. 13
A Steel Strike, a Riot and an Unusual Sequel	p. 25
The Standard Oil Strikes in Bayonne, New Jersey, 1915-1916	p. 41
The New York City Transit Strike of 1916: The First Phase	p. 65
The New York Transit Strike of 1916: The Second Phase	p. 84
New Unionism in the Garment Industry	p. 103
The Women's Trade Union League on the Eve of World War I	p. 123
An Eight-Hour Day for the Railroad Brotherhoods, I: Nine Months of Fruitless Negotiations	p. 143
An Eight-Hour Day for the Railroad Brotherhoods, Ii: The Adamson Act	p. 164
Women Workers on the Eve of America's Entrance into World War I	p. 189
Black Workers on the Eve of America's Entrance into World War I	p. 206
The Election of 1916	p. 222
Reference Notes	p. 232
Index	p. 246
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