"From the Gilded Age through the Progressive era, labor movements reinterpreted Abraham Lincoln as a liberator of working people while workers equated activism with their own service fighting for freedom during the war. Matthew E. Stanley explores the wide-ranging meanings and diverse imagery...

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,...

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...