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Labor's Story In The United States

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In this, the first broad historical overview of labor in the United States in twenty years, Philip Nicholson examines anew the questions, the villains, the heroes, and the issues of work in America.

Unlike recent books that have covered labor in the twentieth century, Labor's Story in the United States looks at the broad landscape of labor since before the Revolution.

In clear, unpretentious language, Philip Yale Nicholson considers American labor history from the perspective of institutions and people: the rise of unions, the struggles over slavery, wages, and child labor, public and private responses to union organizing.

Throughout, the book focuses on the integral relationship between the strength of labor and the growth of democracy, painting a vivid picture of the strength of labor movements and how they helped make the United States what it is today.

Labor's Story in the United States will become an indispensable source for scholars and students.

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Temple University Press,U.S.
1592132391 / 9781592132393
Paperback / softback
09/02/2004
United States
384 pages
178 x 254 mm
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