This single-volume comprehensive compilation of documents integrates institutional labour history (movements and trade unions) with aspects of social and cultural history, as well as charting changes in trade union and managerial practices, and integrating the economics and politics of labour history. It includes documents that treat household relations as well as industrial relations; women as domestic workers and unpaid household labour as well as factory workers; and African American, Hispanic American (especially Mexican and Mexican American), and Asian workers as well as white workers. American Labor offers readers an insight into the full spectrum historically of workers, their daily lives, and the movements that they created.

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Yes, you can access American Labor by M. Dubofsky, J. McCartin, M. Dubofsky,J. McCartin, M. Dubofsky, J. McCartin in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in History & Social History. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan

Year

2016

ISBN

9781137044976

Topic

History

Subtopic

Social History

Index

History

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Labor in the Colonial and Early National Periods, to 1828
2. The Rise of Free Labor, the Factory System, and Trades Organization, 1828–1877
3. Workers in a Maturing and Industrial Society, 1877–1914
4. Wars, Depression, and the Struggle for Industrial Democracy, 1914–1947
5. The Era of the Postwar Social Contract, 1947–1973
6. Era of Economic Change and Union Decline, Since 1973