1. Senex's Letters on associated labour and The pioneer, 1834 : a syndicalist political economy in the making / Noel Thompson -- 2. Peter Kropotkin's anarchist economics for a new society / Jon Bekken -- 3. Some notes on anarchist economic thought / Mathew Forstater -- 4. The economics of the...

Examining the professional lives of a variety of businessmen and their advocates with the intent of taking their words seriously, Chad Pearson paints a vivid picture of an epic contest between industrial employers and labor, and challenges our comfortable notions of Progressive Era reformers.

"The history of labor is inextricably linked with the history of the United States, and today, undergraduate students are seeing a new chapter in labor history unfold before them, with wages stagnating, inequality growing, and unions taking on renewed importance in the workplace. While labor...

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I. Shaping Myself, Shaping History -- Chapter 1. Writing and Rewriting Labor's Narrative -- Chapter 2. Supply-Chain Tourist -- or, How Globalization Has Transformed the Labor Question -- Chapter 3. Historians...