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Historical encyclopedia of American labor

eBook, English, ©2004
Greenwood Press, Westport, Conn., ©2004
Encyclopedias
2 volumes (xxii, 733 pages) : illustrations ; 26 cm
9780313318405, 9780313328633, 9780313328640, 0313318409, 0313328633, 0313328641
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Appendix: Labor Documents. American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) Constitution: Preamble and Article II
Anthracite Coal Strike of 1902: Response to a New York Times Letter by Mine Owners Spokesman George Baer
Black Workers after the Knights of Labor: July 1918 Article from The Messenger
"Bread and Roses": Poem by James Oppenheim-1912
Cesar Chavez: "The Mexican-American and the Church"
Coalition of Labor Union Women: Mission Statement
Colored National Labor Union
Communist Manifesto (1848)
Comparable Worth: 1986 Minnesota Study by Sara Evans and Barbara Nelson
Direct Action and Sabotage: Excerpt from May 1912 Article by Frank Bohn in Solidarity
Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement (D.R.U.M.): Excerpt of February 1971 Article in Inner-City Voice
Edward Bellamy: Excerpts from Looking Backward (1888)
Eight-Hour Association: 1886 Appeal for Reduction in Working Hours
Emma Goldman: Excerpts from Her Autobiography
Eugene V. Debs: Excerpts from His Statement Upon Sentencing for Violation of the Espionage Act, 1918
Excluding Black Workers: 1902 Letter in Locomotive Firemen's Magazine and 1929 Article by Elmer Anderson Carter in Opportunity
Fair Wages: Excerpt from John L. Lewis's The Miners' Fight for American Standards (1925)
Flint Sit-Down Strike: Excerpt of 1976 Interview of Genora Johnson Dollinger
Forcing the Hand of the Fair Employment Practices Committee: Excerpt from November 1942 Article in Survey Graphic Magazine
Forty Years in a Steel Mill: Studs Terkel Interviews Steelworker Steve Dubi
Founding of the American Federation of Labor (AFL): Excerpts for the AFL Call to Action (1886)
Gilded Age Social Conditions: Testimony before the U.S. Senate Committee upon the Relations between Labor and Capital (1883)
Grape Boycott: September 1965 Memo of Cesar Chavez
Immigrant Workers: Excerpt from a December 1881 Article by Elizabeth Buffum Chase in the Labor Standard
Indentured Servant Contract (1627)
An Insider's View of the Fair Employment Practices Committee: An Interview with Earl B. Dickerson
Knights of Labor: Preamble and Platform to Their Constitution (1891). The Lawrence Strike, 1912: Excerpt from the Autobiography of Big Bill Haywood
Life in Lowell, Massachusetts: Boarding House and Factory Rules for the Hamilton Manufacturing Company (1848)
Molly Maguires: Excerpts from an 1894 Article by Cleveland Moffet in McClure's Magazine
National Labor Relations (Wagner) Act (1935)
Persecution of the Industrial Workers of the World: "Big Bill" Haywood's Description of the 1919 Murder of Wesley Everest
Principles of Scientific Management: Excerpt from Frederick Winslow Taylor's Shop Management, 1911
Excerpts from Henry George's Progress and Poverty (1879)
Pullman, Illinois, a Company Town: Excerpt from U.S. Strike Commission Report on the Chicago Strikes of June and July 1894
Pullman Strike: Another Excerpt from the U.S. Strike Commission Report
Real-Life Rosie the Riveter: Excerpt of Augusta Clawson's Experiences as a World War II Shipyard Worker
Rerum Novarum: Excerpts from Bull Issued by Pope Leo XIII in 1891
Social Darwinism: Excerpt from Rev. Henry Ward Beecher's "Bread-and-Water" Sermon (1877)
"Solidarity Forever": Ralph Chaplin's American Labor Anthem (1915)
Steel Workers: Excerpt from John Fitch's The Steel Workers, 1910
Stella Nowicki: Interview with a Meatpacking Plant Worker, 1973
Strikes: Excerpts from Samuel Gompers's Testimony before a U.S. House Committee on Capital-Labor Relations (1899)
Sweatshops: Excerpt from Louis Levine's Description of Turn-of-the-Century Abuses in Garment-Industry Sweatshops
Taft-Hartley Labor Relations Act (1947)
Terence V. Powderly: Excerpts from His Autobiography
Textile Workers: Excerpt of Testimony before the U.S. Senate by John Hill, 1885
"There Is Power in a Union": A Song by Joe Hill, 1913
Thomas Geoghegan: Excerpt from Which Side Are You On?, 1991
Triangle Fire: Excerpts from the March 1911 New York Times Account of the Fire and from an April 1911 Speech by Rose Schneiderman
Voluntarism: Excerpts from Samuel Gompers's Autobiography (1925)
Women in the American Federation of Labor: Excerpt from Writings of Edward O'Donnell
Women on the Breadlines During the Depression: An Account Published by Meridel Le Sueur in New Masses 1932
Yellow-Dog Contract (1904)
Yellow-Dog Contract in the Coal Industry (1917)
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