{"product_id":"labor-in-america-isbn-9781394208241","title":"Labor in America","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe gold standard of American labor history references, updated to include the latest political, social, and economic developments of the 2020s\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLabor in America: A History, Tenth Edition,\u003c\/i\u003e is a comprehensive and authoritative discussion of the U.S. labor movement from the colonial era to the 2020s. Authors Melvyn Dubofsky and Joseph A. McCartin have expanded and updated their landmark text, incorporating significant recent events and their implications for American labor. The book addresses the continuing and evolving challenges faced by American workers, critical developments in U.S. labor history, the impact of economic and political changes, and more. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDubofsky and McCartin offer nuanced analyses of workers’ collective actions, the formation of unions, and the role of labor in shaping American society. They provide a rich historical context and a detailed narrative of labor history for students, scholars, and laypersons alike. The authors also explain the likely impact of major contemporary trends on workers, including the rise of the gig economy, and discuss the most critical influences on modern U.S. labor. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn invaluable resource for anyone interested in the history and future of labor in the United States, \u003ci\u003eLabor in America: A History\u003c\/i\u003e will undoubtedly remain the gold standard in the field for years to come. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Figures ix\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePreface to the Tenth Edition xii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments xiv\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eList of Abbreviations xv\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1 Laboring a Nation into Being 1\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eVarieties of Bound Labor 2\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePatterns of Control, Resistance, and Accommodation 10\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Agency of an Embryonic Working Class 13\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWorkers, Revolution, and Nation Building 18\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2 Labor in the New Republic, 1790 to 1830 22\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Intensification of Agricultural Slavery 23\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eScraping By: Race, Gender, Ethnicity, and the Limits of Resistance 27\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom Journeymen’s Organizations to Unions 36\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e3 The Protean Power of Organization, 1828 to 1840 45\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWorkingmen’s Parties and the Emergence of a Politics of Labor 47\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLabor Organizing in the 1830s 55\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA National Labor Movement 58\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEmployer Counterattack 61\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe National Trades’ Union 63\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Decline of Unionism 66\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e4 Irrepressible Conflicts, 1840 to 1860 68\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Factory System and New Technologies 69\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eImmigration, Urbanization, and Divisions of Ethnicity and Race 73\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReformism and the Antebellum Working Class 76\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReawakening 10-hour Movement 80\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRebuilding Unions 82\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Coming of War 84\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e5 The Incomplete Triumph of Free Labor, 1861 to 1877 88\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWartime Conditions and Expanded Worker Organizing 89\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBlack Labor and Emancipation 92\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Limits of Reconstruction 94\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNational Labor Union 96\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Eight-Hour Movement, Cooperatives, and the Greenback-Labor Movement 103\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDepression, Upheaval, and Fragmentation 107\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e6 The Great Upheaval, 1877 to 1887 111\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChanging Economic and Social Context 115\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Origins and Rise of the Knights of Labor 118\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Knights of Labor at Flood Tide 126\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Decline of the Knights 130\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDenouement: Haymarket, Richmond, and the Thibodaux Massacre 132\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e7 The Rise of the American Federation of Labor, 1886 to 1896 137\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Appeal of Trade Unionism: From Washerwomen to Skilled Craftsmen 137\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOrigins of the New Unionism 140\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSamuel Gompers and the Founding of the American Federation of Labor 142\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAutonomy, Skill, Race, and Gender: AFL Principles and Policies 146\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Homestead Strike, Depression, and the Limits of AFL Unionism 150\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEugene V. Debs and the Pullman Strike 155\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTrade Unionism in Turbulent Times 160\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e8 Labor at the Dawn of the Progressive Era, 1896 to 1908 163\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Failure of Populism and the Birth of the Socialist Party 164\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eProgressive Era Experiments with Labor–Capital Cooperation 169\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLabor’s Limited Breakthrough: The Anthracite Coal Strike of 1902 172\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLabor, Law, and Increasing Employer Resistance 177\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAFL Political Action and a Nascent Labor–Democratic Alliance 181\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e9 Winds of Change, 1908 to 1916 184\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eStirrings of Reform 184\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEmergence of the New Unionism 186\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Radical Unionism of the Industrial Workers of the World 190\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Spirit of the IWW 193\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe IWW’s Challenge to the AFL 196\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLabor Upheaval, Federal Action, and a Budding Political Alliance 201\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e10 War, Reform, and Reaction, 1914 to 1922 205\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRepression of the IWW and the Socialist Party 206\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eToward Industrial Democracy 209\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAfrican Americans, Women, and Mexican Immigrants 211\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePeace in Europe, Class Conflict at Home 214\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Last Throes of Postwar Labor Militancy 220\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Open Shop American Plan and Labor’s Deferred Dreams 223\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e11 The 1920s 227\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWelfare Capitalism 230\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Failure of Insurgent Politics, 1922 to 1924 234\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe AFL after Gompers 236\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCrisis and Glimmers of Change: Miners, Clothing Workers, and Pullman Porters 238\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDepression and the Demoralization of Organized Labor 241\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e12 The New Deal and the Rebirth of Labor Militancy 245\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSection 7(a) and the Revival of Organizing 246\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Wagner Act and the Second New Deal 253\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Emergence of the Committee for Industrial Organization (CIO) 260\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLabor and Roosevelt’s Reelection 268\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e13 The CIO and the New Deal Order 271\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Little Steel Strike, the Roosevelt Recession, and the Resurgence of the AFL 278\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Consolidation of the CIO and a More Inclusive Union Membership 281\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Final New Deal Victory: The Fair Labor Standards Act 286\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLabor and the Emerging New Deal Political Order 288\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEncroaching War and the 1940 Election 291\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e14 World War II 295\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWorkers, Unions, and Wartime Labor Policy 298\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe NWLB and Labor Politics 308\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRace, Gender, and the Changing Union Movement 312\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDemobilization and the Postwar Strike Wave 314\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA New Industrial Relations System 319\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e15 Workers and Unions in the Postwar Era 321\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnticommunism, the Politics of 1948, and the Purge of the Labor Left 325\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Politics of Collective Action in the Emergent New Deal Order 328\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Heyday of Collective Bargaining 331\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA United Labor Movement 333\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Travails of a Sleepy Monopoly 338\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e16 Labor’s Long Sixties, 1960 to 1973 344\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConfronting Automation, Alienation, and Structural Inequalities 348\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLabor, Civil Rights, and the Great Society 351\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublic Employees, Farmworkers, and a Diversifying Union Movement 353\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWar and Division 357\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Challenges of Solidarity 359\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e17 The Great Reversal, 1974 to 1990s 363\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEconomic Crisis and Its Aftermath 363\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRestructuring the Labor Force 365\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Rise of Conservative Politics and Neoliberal Policy 369\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Reagan Revolution 375\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Post-Reagan Political Economy and Labor Policy 380\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Crisis of Unionism 384\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e18 Renewal and Setback, 1990s to 2009 388\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Impetus for Change 389\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Change of Direction for Labor 394\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom Setbacks to Schism 398\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFissuring, Financialization, and the Great Recession 403\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Obama Moment 408\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e19 Resiliency and Disruption, 2009 to 2020 411\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Impact of the Great Recession 412\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Renewed Assault on Unions and Collective Bargaining 415\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eObama’s Mixed Legacy for Workers 418\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLabor’s Green Shoots 422\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWorkers, Unions, and the 2016 Presidential Election 428\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Trump Years 430\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLabor and the 2020 Election 433\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e20 Making the Road by Walking: Labor in the 2020s 435\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFurther Reading 446\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 449\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMelvyn Dubofsky\u003c\/b\u003e is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History \u0026amp; Sociology at Binghamton University, SUNY, USA. He has published extensively on labor history and has been a key figure in the field since the 1960s. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoseph A. McCartin\u003c\/b\u003e is a Professor of History and Executive Director of the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor \u0026amp; the Working Poor at Georgetown University. He has authored and edited numerous books on U.S. labor history and is a prominent voice in contemporary labor studies.   \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe gold standard of American labor history references, updated to include the latest political, social, and economic developments of the 2020s\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLabor in America: A History, Tenth Edition,\u003c\/i\u003e is a comprehensive and authoritative discussion of the U.S. labor movement from the colonial era to the 2020s. Authors Melvyn Dubofsky and Joseph A. 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