Synopses & Reviews
Offering the six historical essays from the out-of-print Bicentennial volume originally published by the U.S. Department of Labor, this book tells the richly dramatic and rewarding story of the working men and women who built the nation, from colonial settlement and the beginning of the republic through the modern labor movement and the space age.
Originally published in 1983.
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Table of Contents
The emergence of American labor / by Richard B. Morris -- Builders of the young republic / by Edward Pessen -- Labor in the industrials era / by David Montgomery -- Workers of a new century / by Philip Taft -- Americans in depression and war / by Irving Bernstein -- Unions and rights in the Space Age / by Jack Barbash -- The bargaining table / by John T. Dunlop.