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There is power in a union : the epic story of labor in America

Dray, Philip. author

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This book is a history of American labor from the dawn of the industrial age to the present day. From the textile mills of Lowell, Massachusetts, the first real factories in America, to the triumph of unions in the twentieth-century and their waning influence today, the contest between labor and capital for their share of American bounty has shaped our national experience. Here the author's ambition is to show the vital accomplishments of organized labor in that time and illuminate its central role in our social, political, economic, and cultural evolution. This is an epic character-driven narrative that locates this struggle for security and dignity in all its various settings on picket lines and in union halls, jails, assembly lines, corporate boardrooms, the courts, the halls of Congress, and the White House. Here the author demonstrates the urgency of the fight for fairness and economic democracy in a struggle that remains especially urgent today when ordinary Americans are so anxious and beset by economic woes.

• Publisher: Anchor Books
• Subject: Labor unions United States History. / Labor movement United States History. / Industrialization Social aspects United States History. / Industrialization Social aspects. / Labor movement. / Labor unions. / Social history. / United States Social conditions. / United States.
• ISBN: 9780307389763, 0307389766

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
HD6508.D73 2011	1	BOOK	BUSINESS