"This book addresses how a group of low-wage and primarily African American women workers found an industrial and interracial union in the 1930s and why their gender and race interests were subordinated within that union in the 1940s. Carson argues that race and gender explain, at every turn,...

The militant minority in the St. Louis electrical industry and the political economy of control, 1900-1935 -- A vision of unionism takes shape, 1900-1935 -- "Human rights over property rights" : forging leftist unionism in District 8 -- "This 'Red' gave them a run for their money" : backlash and...

"A pretty fair representation of the American people" : the great uprising and pictorial order in Gilded Age America / Joshua Brown -- "Our rights as workingmen" : class traditions and collective action in a nineteenth-century railroad town, Hornellsville, N.Y., 1869-82 / Shelton Stromquist --...

In the Wake of Pearl Harbor -- George Taylor and the War Labor Board, 1942-56 -- On Top of the World, 1946-56 -- Down-to-Earth Utopians -- War and Peace in Steel, 1959-72 -- When the Meek Began to Roar: Public Employee Unionism in the 1960s -- "How Can We Avoid a Columbia?" The Student Revolt,...

Sam Hammersmark's Chicago -- Revolutionary recruitment: numbers and experience -- "True revolutionaries": Chicago's party culture in thought and action -- Red relief -- "Abolish capitalism": the Trade Union Unity League's potential and problems -- "Generals are of no use without an army": how...