Stuart B. Kaufman. Samuel Gompers and the Origins of the American Federation of Labor, 1848-1896.

Contents

Introduction

1 – Karl Marx and the Trade Unions, 1848-1872

2 – The First International in America

3 – The Depression Seventies and the United Workers of America

4 – The Workingmen’s Party of the United States and the Dialogue over Marxist Tactics

5 – Developing the Union Approach

6 – Founding the Federation

7 – The Early Federation: Ideologies and Conflict in New York

8 – Gompers and the Use of Economic Power

9 – Gompers and the Challenge of Bourgeois America

10 – Gompers and the Socialists

11 – Gompers and the Origins of the AFL in Perspective

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