From the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend by Murolo, Priscilla -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Copyright Dedication Contents Foreword and Acknowledgments List of Illustrations List of Abbreviations Chapter 1—Labor in Colonial America: The Bound and the Free

Legacies of Conquest Indentured Labor in British Colonies Slavery Free Labor Unruly Labor

Chapter 2—The American Revolution

From Resistance to Independence The People’s War and the Gentlemen’s Republic Republican Legacies

Chapter 3—Slavery and Freedom in the New Republic

“If You Can’t Fight, Kick” Wage Workers and Activism Solidarity and Fragmentation Westward Expansion and Irrepressible Conflict

Chapter 4—Civil War and Reconstruction

The Civil War Southern Reconstruction and Counterrevolution Labor Movements and Struggles Whose Government?

Chapter 5—Labor Versus Monopoly in the Gilded Age

Industrial Capitalism: Consolidation and Crisis The Working Classes The Knights of Labor The American Federation of Labor Populism and Racism

Chapter 6—Labor and Empire

Empire Abroad, Empire at Home The Labor Movement in the Progressive Era The Great War The War’s Aftermath

Chapter 7—America, Inc.

The Roaring Twenties The Labor Movement of the Twenties Early Years of the Great Depression Labor Rising

Chapter 8—Labor on the March

Grassroots Unionism The Rise of the CIO Whose America?

Chapter 9—Hot War, Cold War

America at War The Postwar World “Big Labor”

Chapter 10—The Sixties

In the Spirit of Montgomery “Power to the People” The Sixties in the Workplace A House Divided

Chapter 11—Hard Times

Lean and Mean Race to the Bottom Fighting Back

Chapter 12—Brave New World

Making Change Steps Forward, Steps Back Turn of the Century

Epilogue Suggested Reading Index