Bernard Mandel. Samuel Gompers.

CONTENTS

Introduction. Samuel Gompers: Labor Statesman or Labor Faker? / Louis Filler

PART I

EVOLUTION OF A TRADE UNIONIST, 1850-1886

I – YOUTH

II – THE CIGARMAKERS’ UNION

III – FEDERATION

PART II

FOUNDATIONS OF THE AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR, 1886-1892

IV – GOMPERS AND THE KNIGHTS OF LABOR

V – THE CESSPOOL OF CORRUPTION

VI – BUILDING THE A.F. OF L.

VII – EIGHT HOURS AND THE WORLD LABOR MOVEMENT

PART III

STRUGGLE AND COMPROMISE, 1892-1897

VIII – FIGHTING HARD TIMES

IX – THE TRUSTS

X – LABOR POLITICS AND UNION POLITICS

PART IV

THE MIDDLE AGES, 1897-1906

XI – THE LOBBYIST

XII – IMPERIALISM AND WAR

XIII – LABOR UNDER FIRE

XIV – “A COMMUNITY OF INTERESTS”

PART V

PRE-WAR YEARS, 1906-1914

XV – “THE WORLD WOULD BE A NARROW CAGE”

XVI – “REWARD YOUR FRIENDS”

XVII – LABOR STRUGGLES AND VIOLENCE

XVIII – GOMPERS, THE SOCIALISTS, AND INTERNATIONAL LABOR

PART VI

THE WAR, 1914-1919

XIX – NEUTRALITY AND INTERVENTION

XX – IN THE SERVICE OF HIS COUNTRY

XXI – STIFFENING EUROPE’S BACKBONE

XXII – VERSAILLES

PART VII

LAST YEARS, 1919-1924

XXIII – RIGHT, LEFT, AND CENTER

XXIV – INTERNATIONALISM

XXV – YEAR OF THE SCARE

XXVI – YEARS OF REACTION

XXVII – RED, WHITE, AND BLACK

XXVIII – LAST DAYS