The uneven emergence of a labor movement, 1827-1837 -- The New England Shoemakers' Strike of 1860 -- The Railroad Strikes of 1877 -- The Pullman Strike and boycott of 1894 -- The Lawrence Strike of 1912 -- The miners' program, 1919-1923 -- The General Textile Strike of 1934 -- The General Motors...

List of maps, figures, and tables -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: wealth, wellbeing, and social institutions -- Organized labor and democratic consolidation -- The state and economic development -- Economic reform and labor's response -- Reorganizing industry, disorganizing workers --...

Post-independence labour relations in Africa -- The development of workplace democracy -- A theory of the dynamics of workplace democracy -- Studying democratic participation in Africa -- Conditions of work and employment -- The trade union condition -- The struggle for workplace democracy in...