History of the labor movement in the United States : Volume VI: On the eve of America's entrance into World War I, 1915-1916 / By Philip S. Foner.

This is the sixth volume of the history of the labor movement in the United States series. It is preceded by the fifth volume: The A.F.L. (American Federation of Labor) in the Progressive Era, 1910-1915; and succeeded by the seventh volume: Labor and World War I, 1914-1918.

This resource includes a table from the U.S. Bureau of Immigration's Annual Report of the Commissioner-General of Immigration 1913-1919 showing the effects of European conflicts on immigration.

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

Includes biographical references (pages 233-245) and index.

1. Henry Ford's five-dollar eight-hour day -- 2. An unusual strike in the Arizona copper mines -- 3. A steel strike, a riot, and an unusual sequel -- 4. The Standard Oil strikes in Bayonne, New Jersey, 1915-1916 -- 5. The New York City transit strike of 1916: The first phase -- 6. The New York City transit strike of 1916: The second phase -- 7. New unionism in the garment industry -- 8. The women's trade union league on the eve of World War I -- 9. An eight-hour day for the railroad brotherhoods, I: Nine months of fruitless negotiations-- 10. An eight-hour day for the railroad brotherhoods, II: The Adamson Act -- 11. Women workers on the eve of America's entrance into World War I -- 12. Black workers on the eve of America's entrance into World War I -- 13. Election of 1916.

"In the fifth volume of my multivolume 'History of the Labor Movement in the United States: The AFL in the Progressive Era, 1910-1915', I traced the story of American labor's economic and political activities in one of the most crucial eras in its development. The present volume brings the story to the eve of America's entrance into World War I. In the next (or seventh) volume, I will carry the story to the declaration of war by the United States against Germany and the other Central Powers in April, 1917. In the process I will trace the position of the labor and Socialist movements toward U.S. imperialism from the turn of the twentieth century, and toward the events between the outbreak of World War I in August, 1914 and America's entrance almost three years later. The present volume covers a shorter time span than the previous ones. This has been necessary because most of the movements and labor struggles discussed here have been totally ignored or casually treated in the fourth volume of the Commons-Wisconsin 'History of Labor (jenise finish) " -- from the preface