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Paperback Shifting Fortunes: The Rise and Decline of American Labor, from the 1820s to the Present Book

ISBN: 1566631807

ISBN13: 9781566631808

Shifting Fortunes: The Rise and Decline of American Labor, from the 1820s to the Present

(Part of the American Ways Series Series)

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How and why have American labor unions grown in the century and a half since the industrial revolution? In this concise and illuminating history of the labor movement, Daniel Nelson traces the ebb and flow of union activity since the early nineteenth century. Rejecting an emphasis on individual leadership or the uniqueness of American "conditions," he instead looks to three factors to explain labor's record: the role of the autonomous worker, the...

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