| Preface | IX |
| Preface to the Sixth Edition | XI |
| 1. | Colonial America | 1 |
| Life and Labor in the Colonies | 6 |
| Workers, Politics and Revolution | 15 |
| 2. | The First Unions | 20 |
| Early Unions | 23 |
| Law vs. Labor | 28 |
| Growth of Labor Organization | 30 |
| 3. | The Workingmen's Parties | 33 |
| Leadership | 37 |
| Political Action | 42 |
| 4. | Labor Strength in the 1830s | 49 |
| Union Growth | 50 |
| A National Labor Movement? | 54 |
| An Urge to Strike | 55 |
| An Employer Counterattack | 59 |
| The National Trades Union | 61 |
| The Decline of Unionism | 65 |
| 5. | The Impact of Industrialism | 67 |
| Industrialism, Technological Change, and Reform | 70 |
| Rebuilding a Union Movement | 80 |
| 6. | Toward National Organization | 87 |
| The National Labor Union | 92 |
| The NLU and Social Reform | 97 |
| Depression and Union Decline | 102 |
| 7. | An Era Of Upheaval | 104 |
| Unrest and Conflict | 105 |
| The Great Railroad Strikes | 108 |
| The Haymarket Riot | 112 |
| 8. | The Rise and Decline of the Knights of Labor | 116 |
| Origins of the Knights of Labor | 118 |
| The Rise of the Knights | 127 |
| The Decline of the Knights | 134 |
| 9. | The American Federation of Labor | 138 |
| Triumph of Business Union | 139 |
| Samuel Gompers and the New Unionism | 141 |
| Emergence of the AFL | 145 |
| AFL Principles and Policies | 148 |
| 10. | Homestead and Pullman | 153 |
| The Great Pullman Strike and Boycott | 158 |
| Labor, Populism, and Socialism | 166 |
| Labor in Ebb Tide | 169 |
| 11. | The Progressive Era | 171 |
| Employers and Unions: A New Understanding | 173 |
| The Anthracite Coal Strike, 1902 | 175 |
| Employers Fight Back | 180 |
| AFL and Political Action | 186 |
| Organizing Immigrant Workers | 191 |
| 12. | Thunder on the Left | 195 |
| The Wobblies | 196 |
| The Spirit of the IWW | 200 |
| The Lawrence Strike | 201 |
| Repressing the IWW, 1913-1919 | 205 |
| The Meaning of the IWW | 208 |
| 13. | The First World War--And After | 210 |
| Postwar Labor Upheaval | 215 |
| Year of Strikes, 1919 | 217 |
| Labor Militancy, 1919-1922 | 224 |
| 14. | Labor in Retreat | 227 |
| The American Plan and the Open Shop | 231 |
| Welfare Capitalism | 235 |
| Labor and Insurgent Politics, 1922-1924 | 239 |
| The AFL after Gompers | 241 |
| The Demoralization of Organized Labor | 244 |
| 15. | The New Deal | 249 |
| Section 7(a) | 250 |
| A New Unionism and Its Limits | 252 |
| The Wagner Act | 258 |
| The New Deal Political Order | 261 |
| 16. | The Rise of the Congress of Industrial Organizations | 272 |
| John L. Lewis and the CIO | 277 |
| The Impact of the CIO | 289 |
| 17. | Labor and Politics | 294 |
| War, Lewis, and the Election of 1940 | 300 |
| 18. | The Second World War | 312 |
| The National War Labor Board | 323 |
| The 1945-1946 Strike Wave | 326 |
| A New Industrial Relations System | 333 |
| 19. | From Taft-Hartley to the Merger of the AFL and the CIO | 335 |
| Labor, Taft-Hartley, and Politics | 339 |
| A United Labor Movement | 348 |
| AFL-CIO: A "Sleepy Monopoly" | 352 |
| 20. | Disappointed Hopes | 354 |
| Labor's Decline | 355 |
| Corruption, Politics, and Labor's Travail | 358 |
| Race, War, and Agricultural Workers | 371 |
| A Satisfied Labor Movement | 374 |
| 21. | Hard Times: Workers and Unions, 1973-1992 | 376 |
| An End to Economic Growth? | 377 |
| Restructuring the Labor Force | 379 |
| Labor and Politics | 383 |
| The Rise of Public Employee Unionism | 391 |
| The Crisis of Unionism | 393 |
| Lane Kirkland and Dashed Hopes | 397 |
| Union Troubles in Mass-Production Industries | 400 |
| Deregulation and Union Decline in Transportation | 402 |
| A Mixed Bag | 404 |
| A Dim Future for Labor? | 406 |
| 22. | Hope and Despair: Workers and Unions since 1993 | 407 |
| Labor and Politics | 408 |
| Jobs and Prosperity for All? | 409 |
| A Rough Ride | 412 |
| A New Labor-Left Alliance | 417 |
| September 11, 2001, National Crisis, and Labor | 419 |
| A New Unionism | 424 |
| Hard and Dangerous Work | 426 |
| Whither Labor? | 428 |
| Further Reading | 429 |
| Index | 457 |
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