History of the labor movement in the United States : Volume I: From colonial times to the founding of the American Federation of Labor / By Philip S. Foner.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: History of the labor movement in the United StatesPublication details: New York, NY: International Publishers Co., Inc., 1998, ©1947. Description: (Volume One) : 576 pages : black and white tables ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 071780089X
  • 0717803767
  • 9780717803767
Other title:
  • From colonial times to the founding of the American Federation of Labor [Cover title]
  • From colonial times to the founding of the A.F. of L [Cover title]
  • Volume I: From colonial times to the founding of the American Federation of Labor [Other title]
  • Volume One: From colonial times to the founding of the American Federation of Labor [Other title]
  • Volume 1: From colonial times to the founding of the American Federation of Labor [Other title]
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 331.88/0973 19
LOC classification:
  • HD 6508 .F57 1998
Online resources:
Partial contents:
1. Labor comes to America -- 2. Labor in colonial America -- 3. Labor and the American Revolution -- 4. American industrial development, 1783-1880 -- 5. Early trade unions -- 6. Labor and Jeffersonian democracy -- 7. Trade unionism and labor struggles, 1819-1837 -- 8. Early labor parties -- 9. Labor and Jacksonian democracy -- 10. The era of utopianism -- 11. The ten-hour movement -- 12. Trade unions and labor struggles in the fifties -- 13. Labor in the Ante-bellum South -- 14. Northern labor and slavery -- 15. Labor and the Civil War -- 16. Labor and the Copperheads -- 17. The labor movement 1861-1866 -- 18. The labor movement 1866-1872 -- 19. The labor movement 1866-1872 -- 20. The labor movement 1866-1872 (concluded) -- 21. The birth of the knights of labor -- 22. The long depression -- 23. Challenging the Great Depression -- 24. Independent political action, 1873-1878 -- 25. Beginnings of the modern labor movement, 1878-1881.
Summary: Traces the history of labor unions and the labor movement from America's colonial era, through the Industrial Revolution, to the present. -- from the internetSummary: "[A] study of the struggles of the working class in America to win a higher standard of living and an improved status in society. This volume starts with a broad picture of the working class in Colonial America. It ends with the beginnings of the modern labor movement. The author...stres[ses] the influence the labor movement has had upon the development of American social structure, and, conversely, the influence economic, political, and social events have had on the development of trade unions...Here is the long neglected story of labor's role in the American Revolution, in the struggles of the Jeffersonian Democracy, in the long battle over slavery, in the Civil War and Reconstruction. [Herein] is the history of labor's efforts at independent political action; and the story of the growth of socialist movements and their influence upon the working class." -- from the dust jacket
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This is the first volume of the History of the Labor Movement in the United States series. It is succeeded by the second volume, From the Founding of the A.F.L. to the Emergence of American imperialism.

This text includes tables containing information around daily working hours at varying establishments.

This resource includes errata that went through before final publication (page 568).

This book includes biographical summaries of individuals mentioned in the first volume of this publication.

Includes biographical references (pages 525-559) and index.

1. Labor comes to America -- 2. Labor in colonial America -- 3. Labor and the American Revolution -- 4. American industrial development, 1783-1880 -- 5. Early trade unions -- 6. Labor and Jeffersonian democracy -- 7. Trade unionism and labor struggles, 1819-1837 -- 8. Early labor parties -- 9. Labor and Jacksonian democracy -- 10. The era of utopianism -- 11. The ten-hour movement -- 12. Trade unions and labor struggles in the fifties -- 13. Labor in the Ante-bellum South -- 14. Northern labor and slavery -- 15. Labor and the Civil War -- 16. Labor and the Copperheads -- 17. The labor movement 1861-1866 -- 18. The labor movement 1866-1872 -- 19. The labor movement 1866-1872 -- 20. The labor movement 1866-1872 (concluded) -- 21. The birth of the knights of labor -- 22. The long depression -- 23. Challenging the Great Depression -- 24. Independent political action, 1873-1878 -- 25. Beginnings of the modern labor movement, 1878-1881.

Traces the history of labor unions and the labor movement from America's colonial era, through the Industrial Revolution, to the present. -- from the internet

"[A] study of the struggles of the working class in America to win a higher standard of living and an improved status in society. This volume starts with a broad picture of the working class in Colonial America. It ends with the beginnings of the modern labor movement. The author...stres[ses] the influence the labor movement has had upon the development of American social structure, and, conversely, the influence economic, political, and social events have had on the development of trade unions...Here is the long neglected story of labor's role in the American Revolution, in the struggles of the Jeffersonian Democracy, in the long battle over slavery, in the Civil War and Reconstruction. [Herein] is the history of labor's efforts at independent political action; and the story of the growth of socialist movements and their influence upon the working class." -- from the dust jacket

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