American Workers, American Unions: The Twentieth Century
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Book Overview
Highly acclaimed and widely read, "American Workers, American Unions" (first published in 1986, revised ed. 1994) provides a concise and compelling history of American workers and their unions in twentieth-century America. This new edition features new chapters on the pre-1920 period, as well as an entirely new final chapter that covers developments of the 1980s and 1990s in detail. There the authors explore how economic change, union stagnation,...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:080187078X
ISBN13:9780801870781
Release Date:December 2002
Publisher:Johns Hopkins University Press
Length:312 Pages
Weight:1.00 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 6.0" x 9.2"
Age Range:22 years and up
Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher
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Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 17 years ago
This is by far my favorite single-volume book of labor history. It's a well-researched, balanced survey of the 20th century, scholarly yet highly readable. I have assigned it as initial reading in graduate-level labor relations courses to lay a historical foundation, and students have given postive feedback on the book (mirroring my comments above).
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