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 [0xc000293530 0xc000293920 0xc000138360 0xc00015cc30 0xc0001ba3f0 0xc0007ed5c0 0xc000be0210 0xc000172a50 0xc00067df50 0xc0006e5c50 0xc000793f20 0xc0007e0780 0xc0009b0fc0 0xc000e40a80 0xc0015d63f0 0xc00099e300 0xc000a43620 0xc000adc060 0xc000b8ce40 0xc0018c9680 0xc001919ce0 0xc001a24c90 0xc001cfc060 0xc002317ec0 0xc002338bd0 0xc002875560 0xc0028b4cf0 0xc0028c9770] 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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