This book studies the changing ways in which American industrial workers mobilised concerted action in their own interests between the abolition of slavery and the end of open immigration from Europe and Asia.

"I would rate this book near the top of whatever scales measure importance.

In this assiduously researched work of journalism, Teen Vogue columnist and independent labor reporter Kim Kelly excavates that history and shows how the rights the American worker has today—the forty-hour workweek, workplace-safety ...

Throughout, the book focuses on the integral relationship between the strength of labor and the growth of democracy, painting a vivid picture of the strength of labor movements and how they helped make the United States what it is today ...

This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about organized labor.

Students, scholars, labor leaders, and activists should all read this magnificent book.”-Steve Striffler, author ofIn the Shadows of State and Capital: The United Fruit Company, Popular Struggle, and Agrarian Restructuring in Ecuador, ...

This edited volume brings together a variety of studies on the lives, works, and intellectual and practical contributions of these two stalwart political leaders.

Thoroughly updated, this essential reference source introduces scholars to the study of organized labor on the international as well as national level.

Examines the fight of the United Farm Workers Union.

''After this book, no one will have any excuse to write about late nineteenth-century politics in Chicago, or any other city, solely on the basis of the actions and interests of elites.