Labor in America : A History

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Figures -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Conditions of Labor in Colonial America -- Life and Labor in the Colonies -- Workers, Politics, and Revolution -- Chapter 2: Varieties of Worker Resistance and the Emergence of the First Unions -- The Origins of Worker Organization -- Early Unions -- Law versus Labor -- The Growth of Labor Organization -- Chapter 3: The Growth of the Market and Labor's Response -- Workingmen's Parties -- Leadership -- Political Action -- Chapter 4: Labor Organizing in the 1830s -- Union Growth -- A National Labor Movement? -- An Urge to Strike -- An Employer Counterattack -- The National Trades' Union -- The Decline of Unionism -- Chapter 5: Free Labor in an Emerging Industrial Economy -- Industrialism, Technological Change, and Reform -- Rebuilding a Union Movement -- The Coming of War -- Chapter 6: Toward National Organization -- The National Labor Union -- The NLU and Social Reform -- Depression and Union Decline -- Chapter 7: An Era of Upheaval -- Unrest and Conflict -- The Great Railroad Strikes -- The Haymarket Square Riot -- Chapter 8: The Rise and Decline of the Knights of Labor -- The Origins of the Knights of Labor -- The Rise of the Knights -- The Decline of the Knights -- Chapter 9: The American Federation of Labor -- The Triumph of Business Unionism -- Samuel Gompers and the New Union Model -- The Emergence of the AFL -- The Principles and Policies of the AFL -- Chapter 10: Labor Conflict and Economic Crisis in the 1890s -- Worker Resistance and Industrial Conflict -- Labor, Populism, and Socialism -- Labor at Ebb Tide -- Chapter 11: The Labor Question in the Progressive Era -- Employers and Unions Experiment with Accommodation -- The Anthracite Coal Strike of 1902 -- The Employers Fight Back.