TY - BOOK AU - Murolo,Priscilla AU - Chitty,A.B. TI - From the folks who brought you the weekend: a short, illustrated history of labor in the United States SN - 1565844440 (hc.) AV - HD8066 .M86 2001 U1 - 331.0973 21 PY - 2001/// CY - New York PB - New Press, Distributed by W.W. Norton KW - Labor KW - United States KW - History KW - Working class KW - Labor movement N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [333]-344) and index; Machine generated contents note: CHAPTER 1-Labor in Colonial America: The Bound -- and the Free -- Legacies of Conquest -- Indentured Labor in British Colonies -- Slavery -- Free Labor -- Unruly Labor --CHAPTER 2-The American Revolution -- From Resistance to Independence -- The People's War and the Gentlemen's Republic -- Republican Legacies --CHAPTER 3-Slavery and Freedom in the New Republic -- "If You Can't Fight, Kick" -- Wage Workers and Activism -- Solidarity and Fragmentation -- Westward Expansion and Irrepressible Conflict -- CHAPTER 4-Civil War and Reconstruction -- The Civil War -- Southern Reconstruction and Counterrevolution -- Labor Movements and Struggles -- Whose Government? CHAPTER 5-Labor Versus Monopoly in the -- Gilded Age -- Industrial Capitalism: Consolidation and Crisis -- The Working Classes -- The Knights of Labor -- The American Federation of Labor -- Populism and Racism CHAPTER 6-Labor and Empire -- Empire Abroad, Empire at Home -- The Labor Movement in the Progressive Era -- The Great War -- The War's Aftermath CHAPTER 7-America, Inc. -- The Roaring Twenties -- The Labor Movement of the Twenties -- Early Years of the Great Depression -- Labor Rising CHAPTER 8-Labor on the March -- Grassroots Unionism -- The Rise of the CIO -- Whose America? CHAPTER 9-Hot War, Cold War -- America at War -- The Postwar World -- "Big Labor" CHAPTER 10-The Sixties -- In the Spirit of Montgomery -- "Power to the People" -- The Sixties in the Workplace -- A House Divided --CHAPTER 11-Hard Times -- Lean and Mean -- Race to the Bottom -- Fighting Back --CHAPTER 12-Brave New World -- Making Change -- Steps Forward, Steps Back -- Turn of the Century UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy031/2001030978.html ER -