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![Conservative Counterrevolution](https://s2.adlibris.com/images/22299762/conservative-counterrevolution.jpg)
Conservative Counterrevolution
In the 1950s, Milwaukee's strong union movement and socialist mayor seemed to embody a dominant liberal consensus that sought to continue and expand the New Deal. Tula Connell …
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Workers in Hard Times
Seeking to historicize the 2007-2009 Great Recession, this volume of essays situates the current economic crisis and its impact on workers in the context of previous abrupt shifts …
![Labor Justice across the Americas](https://s2.adlibris.com/images/30206257/labor-justice-across-the-americas.jpg)
Labor Justice across the Americas
Opinions of specialized labor courts differ, but labor justice undoubtedly represented a decisive moment in worker 's history. When and how did these courts take shape? Why did …
![The Spirit of 1848](https://s2.adlibris.com/images/9142719/the-spirit-of-1848.jpg)
The Spirit of 1848
Immigrants and their children became the chief component of the U.S. working class during the nineteenth century. Bruce Levine examines the early years of this social …
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After the Strike
The 1894 Pullman strike and the rise of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters played major roles in the century-long development of union organizing and labor-management …
![The Labor Board Crew](https://s2.adlibris.com/images/57754369/the-labor-board-crew.jpg)
The Labor Board Crew
Ronald W. Schatz tells the story of the team of young economists and lawyers recruited to the National War Labor Board to resolve union-management conflicts during the Second World …
![Manhood on the Line](https://s1.adlibris.com/images/22272547/manhood-on-the-line.jpg)
Manhood on the Line
Stephen Meyer charts the complex vagaries of men reinventing manhood in twentieth century America. Their ideas of masculinity destroyed by principles of mass production, workers …
![A Renegade Union](https://s2.adlibris.com/images/6085278/a-renegade-union.jpg)
A Renegade Union
Dedicated to organizing workers from diverse racial, ethnic, and religious backgrounds, many of whom were considered "unorganizable" by other unions, the progressive New York …
![Labor's Mind](https://s2.adlibris.com/images/43719630/labors-mind.jpg)
Labor's Mind
Business leaders, conservative ideologues, and even some radicals of the early twentieth century dismissed working people's intellect as stunted, twisted, or altogether missing. …
![Redeeming Time](https://s1.adlibris.com/images/12683396/redeeming-time.jpg)
Redeeming Time
During the struggle for the eight-hour workday and a shorter workweek, Chicago emerged as an important battleground for workers in "the entire civilized world" to redeem time from …
![Disruption in Detroit](https://s1.adlibris.com/images/43704361/disruption-in-detroit.jpg)
Disruption in Detroit
It is a bedrock American belief: the 1950s were a golden age of prosperity for autoworkers. Flush with high wages and enjoying the benefits of generous union contracts, these …