American workers, American unions : the twentieth century by Zieger, Robert H, Gall, Gilbert J instant download

American workers, American unions : the twentieth century by Zieger, Robert H, Gall, Gilbert J instant download

xii, 292 pages ; 23 cm, \"Highly acclaimed and widely read, American Workers, American Unions (first published in 1986 and revised in 1994) provides a concise and compelling history of American workers and their unions in twentieth-century America. This new edition features a new chapter on labor's development prior to the 1920s, as well as an entirely new final chapter that takes a detailed look at the challenges faced by workers in the 1980s, 1990s, and the early twenty-first century. Also included in this third edition is new bibliographical material and a regularly updated on-line link to an extended bibliographical essay.\"--Jacket, Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-277) and index, The new industrial regime -- War, prosperity, and depression, 1914-1933 -- Rebirth of the Unions, 1933-1939 -- Labor goes to war, 1939-1945 -- Strikes, politics, radicalism, 1945-1950 -- Affluent workers, stable unions: labor in the postwar decades -- Race, war, politics: Labor in the 1960s -- Labor into the twenty-first century