Southern intellectual George Fitzhugh provides a passionate defense of slavery in this nearly 400-page volume published in 1857.

E.P. Thompson shows how the working class took part in its own making and re-creates the whole life experience of people who suffered loss of status and freedom, who underwent degradation and who yet created a culture and political ...

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.

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 ...

Labor and the Red Scare; Seattle and Winnipeg general strikes; Boston telephone and police strikes; Streetcar strikes in Chicago, Denver, Knoxville, Kansas City; strikes in clothing, textile, coal and steel; The open-shop drive; Strikes and ...

Brimming with fascinating characters, this riveting history explores the infamous 1886 Haymarket bombing that shocked the nation and led to America's first Red Scare. Illustrations throughout.

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

Throughout the book, Halle illustrates his analysis with excerpts of workers' views on everything from strikes, class consciousness, politics, job security, and toxic chemicals to marriage, betting on horses, God, home-ownership, drinking, ...