Labor Leaders in America
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1800s
1900s
A. Philip Randolph
AFL-CIO
African American
artisan
auto
automobile
automotive
biography
black
business unionism
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Cesar Chavez
Christian cooperation
craft union
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Eugene V. Debs
farm worker
figures
George Meany
Great Depression
industrial
Jimmy Hoffa
John L. Lewis
Knights of Labor
labor
labor action
labor liberalism
labor radical
leaders
leadership
life story
mass production
mining
movement
Philip Murray
Progressive Era
protest
radical
Rose Schneiderman
Samuel Gompers
Sidney Hillman
socialism
steel
strike
Terence V. Powderly
trade union
union
unionism
United Farm Workers
United States
Walter Reuther
William D.
William Green
William H. Sylvis
workers
working class
Product details
- ISBN 9780252013430
- Weight: 540g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 01 Jan 1987
- Publisher: University of Illinois Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Here are the life stories of the men and women who led the labor movement in America from Reconstruction to recent times, from William H. Sylvis, the first major labor leader, to Cesar Chavez, who organized California's farm workers in the 1960s. In each profile, a leading authority provides a profile of the figure's life and work. Taken together, these short biographies provide a broad overview of the American labor movement that will appeal to students, interested readers, and specialists. Profiles include: William H. Sylvis, Terence V. Powderly, Samuel Gompers, Eugene V. Debs, William D. "Big Bill" Haywood, William Green, Rose Schneiderman, John L. Lewis, Sidney Hillman, Philip Murray, A. Philip Randolph, Walter Reuther, Jimmy Hoffa, George Meany, and Cesar Chavez
Melvyn Dubofsky is Distinguished Professor of History and Sociology at the State University of New York at Binghamton. His books include We Shall Be All: A History of the IWW. Warren Van Tine is an emeritus professor of history at The Ohio State University and author of The Making of the Labor Bureaucrat. Dubofsky and Van Tine are also coauthors of John L. Lewis: A Biography.
