Historic Documents of the U.S. Labor Movement
The Essential Primary Sources
Author(s):
Jonathan Rees
Collection:
Historic Documents Series
Publication Date
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Publisher: Schlager Group Inc.
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Description
Table of contents
This volume explores the history of the American labor movement through key primary documents, from letters and speeches to government documents. Overview articles provide important context to the topic, while the curated selection of documents helps make the volume an important starting point for historical research.
Description
This volume explores the history of the American labor movement through key primary documents, from letters and speeches to government documents. Overview articles provide important context to the topic, while the curated selection of documents helps make the volume an important starting point for historical research.
Table of contents
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- The U.S. Labor Movement: Historical Overview
- Worker Testimony: Commonwealth v. Pullis
- Frances Wright: “The People at War”
- Commonwealth v. Hunt
- W. Chase: “Causes of Failure”
- “A Week in the Mill”
- Oath of the Knights of Labor
- Terence Powderly: “The Plea for Eight Hours”
- Samuel Gompers: “What Does Labor Want?”
- Eugene V. Debs: “Industrial Peace”
- Mother Jones: Speech to the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA)
- Eugene V. Debs: Speech to the Founding Convention of the Industrial Workers of the World
- William “Big Bill” Haywood: Speech to the Founding Convention of the Industrial Workers of the World
- Clara Lemlich: Speech Instigating the Uprising of the 20,000
- Mother Jones: Speech to Striking Coal Miners
- Pearl Jolly: Testimony about the Ludlow Massacre
- Elizabeth Gurley Flynn: “Sabotage: The Conscious Withdrawal of Worker Efficiency”
- National Labor Relations Act
- John L. Lewis, “Labor and the Nation”
- Walter Reuther: National Hour Radio Address on Inflation
- Taft-Hartley Act
- Landrum-Griffin Act
- John F. Kennedy: Executive Order 10988: Employee-Management Cooperation in the Federal Service
- George Meany: Congressional Testimony in Favor of Civil Rights Bill
- Ronald Reagan: “Remarks on the Air Traffic Controllers Strike”
- Economic Policy Institute: “NAFTA at Seven”
- Richard Trumka: Speech at the Democratic National Convention
- Starbucks Workers United: “Our Fight”
- Amazon Labor Union: “Our Core Principles”
