The Unfinished Struggle: Turning Points in American Labor, 1877–Present
by Steve Babson
Critical Issues in American History
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The Unfinished Struggle is one of the most concise, comprehensive, and accessible history of the modern American labor movement ever written. Labor scholar and activist Steve Babson's dramatic narrative examines the numerous attempts to organize workers from the Great Uprising of 1877 to the sitdown strikes of the 1930s to the present day. Babson illuminates the tumultuous past, evolving agenda, and continuing conflicts of the labor movement. He carefully identifies the causes of labor's show more decline in recent decades and explains union leaders' attempts to revive their organizations. Most important, Babson shows readers how the fortunes of organized labor are tied to larger trends in American history. show lessTags
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Steve Babson is a labor program specialist at the Labor Studies Center of Wayne State University in Detroit.
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- The Unfinished Struggle: Turning Points in American Labor, 1877–Present
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- Nonfiction, History, Economics, General Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 331.88 — Society, Government, and Culture Economics Labor economics Labor unions, labor-management bargaining and disputes Labor unions (Trade unions)
- LCC
- HD8072 .B213 — Social sciences Industries. Land use. Labor Industries. Land use. Labor Labor. Work. Working class By region or country
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- English
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