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 [0xc0002f6000 0xc0002f6420 0xc0000ef590 0xc000113f50 0xc0001ae660 0xc000b1c780 0xc0009f3440 0xc00041b710 0xc000aa4840 0xc000af6810 0xc000b52c60 0xc000b854d0 0xc00120a900 0xc0013e0f30 0xc001f0eb70 0xc0012d71a0 0xc00136c810 0xc001389290 0xc001422450 0xc00203b6e0 0xc00234e090 0xc0023b9170 0xc00265cb10 0xc0028a7b00 0xc0028ba900 0xc00028f9e0 0xc00034d260 0xc000385d70] 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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