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. <br> <br>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. <br> <br>[Abstract by Laila Mushawar] <br> <br> <br>Table of Contents <br> <br>Preface <br>1. A Tale of Six Decades <br>2. The Molly Maguires <br>3. Two Weeks of Insurrection <br>4. The Bomb at Haymarket <br>5. Naval War at Homestead <br>6. The Debs Revolution <br>7. War in the Rockies <br>8. Halfway House <br>9. The Wobblies <br>10. Bread and Roses <br>11. First Round in Mass Production <br>12. The Lean Years <br>13. Impending Victory <br>14. Clearing the Cobwebs <br>15. Sitdown! Sitdown! <br>16. The Ides of Yesterday and Tomorrow <br> <br>Bibliography <br>Index CX7488 1 false true false CX7488.htm [0xc000300bd0 0xc000300fc0 0xc002363620 0xc002371ec0 0xc000645080 0xc000678690 0xc000820fc0 0xc000ddb3e0 0xc0003ca0f0 0xc000417ce0 0xc000463f80 0xc0004a4660 0xc00052ddd0 0xc000889530 0xc000f4c780 0xc0003afb30 0xc000448d80 0xc000481770 0xc000534300 0xc001066300 0xc001078930 0xc0010e9770 0xc0015249f0 0xc001c5e2d0 0xc001c5ef00 0xc00279d0b0 0xc0027da7b0 0xc0027f1230] 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

Subject Headings

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