In Solidarity and Survival, three generations of Iowa workers tell of their unrelenting efforts to create a labor movement in the coal mines and on the rails, in packinghouses and farm equipment plants, on construction sites and in hospital wards. Drawing on nearly one thousand interviews...

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Progressives and the Problem of Class -- 1. The Labor Problem and the Crisis of the Old Order -- 2. Constituting Progressivism -- 3. The Politics of Reform -- 4. Communities of Reformers -- 5. Class Bridging and the...