The Labor Wars

Lens, Sidney

Publisher: Anchor Books, New York, USA
Year First Published: {16602 The Labor Wars LABOUR WARS Lens, Sidney Anchor Books New York USA A survey of landmark events in the U.S. labour movement. 1973 1974 428pp BC16602s-LaborWars.jpg B Book 0-385-00500-8 Describes landmark events in the rise of the American labour movement, battles that were fought against police forces, government and the legal system. Among these is the 1930s sitdown strike against General Motors that resulted in victory for the workers. Often these events were violent as with the execution of the "Molly Maguires" in the Pennsylvania coal field during the 18th century. Some even erupted in open warfare such as with the violent confrontation of the Homestead strike of 1892. Also describes factions and disagreements within the American labour movement as well as some of its major figures such as Eugene Debs, Samuel Gompers, William Z. Foster , Bill Haywood , John L. Lewis , and Walter Reuther. Lens is also concerned with the future of the labour movement and values a time when protest movements had a connection with those of the past. A time when they traced their ideas back to figures such as Marx, Lenin, Tom Paine and Bill Haywood and their traditions back to the Paris Commune and the Russian revolutions of 1905 and 1917. [Abstract by Laila Mushawar] Table of Contents Preface 1. A Tale of Six Decades 2. The Molly Maguires 3. Two Weeks of Insurrection 4. The Bomb at Haymarket 5. Naval War at Homestead 6. The Debs Revolution 7. War in the Rockies 8. Halfway House 9. The Wobblies 10. Bread and Roses 11. First Round in Mass Production 12. The Lean Years 13. Impending Victory 14. Clearing the Cobwebs 15. Sitdown! Sitdown! 16. The Ides of Yesterday and Tomorrow Bibliography Index CX7488 1 false true false CX7488.htm [0xc0002cf3e0 0xc0002cf800 0xc00037d9e0 0xc0000d6360 0xc00020a4e0 0xc000b88750 0xc0007ca0f0 0xc0004b9ad0 0xc000b9bbc0 0xc000bf3ad0 0xc000c55f20 0xc000cce7b0 0xc000eb4e70 0xc00136f2c0 0xc001c3a660 0xc0010a2e40 0xc00118e480 0xc0011b2f00 0xc00124e030 0xc002090d50 0xc0020b7680 0xc00210e6f0 0xc0021efe60 0xc002784ab0 0xc002785890 0xc002af0690 0xc002b1bef0 0xc002b46a20] Cx}
Year Published: 1974
Pages: 428pp ISBN: 0-385-00500-8
Resource Type: Book
Cx Number: CX7488

A survey of landmark events in the U.S. labour movement.

Abstract:
Describes landmark events in the rise of the American labour movement, battles that were fought against police forces, government and the legal system. Among these is the 1930s sitdown strike against General Motors that resulted in victory for the workers. Often these events were violent as with the execution of the "Molly Maguires" in the Pennsylvania coal field during the 18th century. Some even erupted in open warfare such as with the violent confrontation of the Homestead strike of 1892. Also describes factions and disagreements within the American labour movement as well as some of its major figures such as Eugene Debs, Samuel Gompers, William Z. Foster , Bill Haywood , John L. Lewis , and Walter Reuther.

Lens is also concerned with the future of the labour movement and values a time when protest movements had a connection with those of the past. A time when they traced their ideas back to figures such as Marx, Lenin, Tom Paine and Bill Haywood and their traditions back to the Paris Commune and the Russian revolutions of 1905 and 1917.

[Abstract by Laila Mushawar]

Table of Contents

Preface
1. A Tale of Six Decades
2. The Molly Maguires
3. Two Weeks of Insurrection
4. The Bomb at Haymarket
5. Naval War at Homestead
6. The Debs Revolution
7. War in the Rockies
8. Halfway House
9. The Wobblies
10. Bread and Roses
11. First Round in Mass Production
12. The Lean Years
13. Impending Victory
14. Clearing the Cobwebs
15. Sitdown! Sitdown!
16. The Ides of Yesterday and Tomorrow

Bibliography
Index

The Labor Wars

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