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Book

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

Call Number

  • 331.88 D768 (CEN)

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Edition

1st ed.

Publication Information

New York : Doubleday, c2010.

Physical Description

772 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Summary

From an award-winning historian, a stirring (and timely) narrative history of American labor from the dawn of the industrial age to the present day.

Contents

  • The oppressing hand of avarice
  • Hell with the lid off
  • We mean to have eight hours
  • Pullman's town
  • Industrial democracy
  • We shall be all
  • Dynamite
  • Let us have peace and make cars
  • Spies, crooks, and congressmen
  • If America's soul becomes poisoned
  • A time for choosing.

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