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Philip S. Foner. From Colonial Times to the Founding of the American Federation of Labor.

Biblioteca / 1940-1949

Philip S. Foner. History of the Labor Movement in the United States. Vol. 1: From Colonial Times to the Founding of the American Federation of Labor

Nueva York: International Publishers, 1947.

4ta reimpresión, 1972.

576 páginas.

CONTENTS

PREFACE

1 – LABOR COMES TO AMERICA

Labor Conditions in Europe

Getting to America

2 – LABOR IN COLONIAL AMERICA

Slaves and Indentured Servants

Emergence of Wage Earners

Labor Conditions and Organizations

Struggles for Democracy

3 – LABOR AND THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION

Background for Revolution

The Sons of Liberty

Political Action

The Road to Independence

The War for Independence

Victory

4 – AMERICAN INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT, 1783-1880

Obstacles to Industrial Growth

Role of Transportation

Rise of the Factory System

Industrial Expansion on the Eve of the Civil War

Industrial Growth During the Civil War

Industrial Expansion After the Civil War

Trends Toward Monopoly

Crises, and Labor’s Answers

5 – EARLY TRADE UNIONS

Labor Conditions in Post-Revolutionary America

The Merchant Capitalist Enters

Temporary Labor Associations

The First Trade Unions

Union Policies and Practices

Labor and the Courts

6 – LABOR AND JEFFERSONIAN DEMOCRACY

Sources of Jeffersonian Democracy

The Democratic-Republican Societies

The Federalist Counter-Offensive

The Triumph of Jeffersonianism

Labor and the Embargo

Labor and the War of 1812

Extension of Democracy

7 – TRADE UNIONISM AND LABOR STRUGGLES, 1819-1837

Labor Conditions

Labor’s Awakening

City Centrals

National Labor Organization

The Ten-Hour Day

Labor and the Public

8 – EARLY LABOR PARTIES

The Political Awakening

The Workingmen’s Program

Philadelphia

New York

New England

Decline and Disappearance

Achievements

9 – LABOR AND JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY

Labor’s Estimate of Jackson

The Bank War

Labor’s Role in New York

Rise of the Loco-Focos

Loco-Focoism Spreads

Achievements of the Loco-Focos

10 – THE ERA OF UTOPIANISM

Decline of the Trade Unions

Spread of Machinery

Credo of the Utopians

Owenism

Fourierism

Producers’ Co-operatives

Consumers’ Co-operatives

Land Reform

Utopian Reformers and Trade Unionism

11 – THE TEN-HOUR MOVEMENT, 1840-1860

The Revival of Trade Unionism

Factory Workers and the Labor Movement

The Ten-Hour Philosophy

New England Workingmen’s Association

Ten-Hour Strikes

Ten-Hour Laws

Decline in New England

Upsurge in Pennsylvania

Activity in the ‘Fifties

Political Action in New Jersey

Results of the Ten-Hour Movement

12 – TRADE UNIONS AND LABOR STRUGGLES IN THE FIFTIES

Labor Conditions

Local Trade Unions

Immigrant Labor

English Influences

The German-American Labor Movement

National Labor Organization

Unemployment Demonstrations

Revival of Unionism

New England Shoemakers’ Strike

Labor and Politics

13 – LABOR IN THE ANTE-BELLUM SOUTH

Slavery

Resistance

White Workers and Slavery

Slavery’s Dilemma

14 – NORTHERN LABOR AND SLAVERY

Uncertainties

Labor and the Abolitionists

Wage Slavery and Chattel Slavery

Impact of Slavery Extension

The Slaveholders’ Program

Emergence of the Republican Party

Election of 1856

Fighting Republican Conservatism

Lincoln and Labor

Election of 1860

15 – LABOR AND THE CIVIL WAR

Labor and the Secession Crisis

To Arms!

Fighting for What?

English Workers and the Civil War

Contributions of Negro Workers

16 – LABOR AND THE COPPERHEADS

Labor and the Draft

Copperhead Propaganda

Wartime Contrasts

Wartime strikes

Failure of the Copperhead Campaign

Labor Turns to Lincoln

Role of the Labor Press

Workingmen’s Democratic-Republican Association

Victory

17 – THE LABOR MOVEMENT, 1861-1866

Causes of Trade Union Revival

Women Workers

More and Bigger Unions

The Molders

The Labor Press

The Employers’ Counterattack

Labor Tightens Its Ranks

Political Action

A National Perspective

Towards an Eight-Hour Day

18 – THE LABOR MOVEMENT, 1866-1872

Founding the National Labor Union

The First Congress

Strengthening the National Labor Union

The Eight-Hour Day

Women Workers and Woman’s Rights

19 – THE LABOR MOVEMENT, 1866-1872 (continued)

Labor and Reconstruction

Organization of Negro Workers

Negro Labor Coventions of 1869

The National Colored Labor Union

20 – THE LABOR MOVEMENT, 1866-1872 (concluded)

International Labor Unity

The First International in America

The Co-operative Movement

Monetary Reform

Political Action

Decline of the National Labor Union

21 – THE BIRTH OF THE KNIGHTS OF LABOR

Rituals of the Knights of Labor

Role of Uriah S. Stephens

Early Structure of the Knights of Labor

22 – THE LONG DEPRESSION, 1873-1878

Decline in Union Membership

Persistence of Unionism

Depression Living

Unemployed Demonstrations

Lassalleans and Marxists

The Socialist Movement Unites

23 – CHALLENGING THE GREAT DEPRESSION

Textile Strikes

The Long Strike of 1875

The Molly Maguires

The Great Strikes of 1877

24 – INDEPENDENT POLITICAL ACTION, 1873-1878

The Rise of Greenbackism

Labor Parties and Greenbackism

The National Greenback-Labor Party

Chinese Exclusion

Demagogy’s Brief Sway in California

The Socialist Movement

25 – BEGINNINGS OF THE MODERN LABOR MOVEMENT, 1878-1881

Revival of Trade Unionism

The International Labor Union

The Knights of Labor

The «New Unionism» of the 1870’s,

The Cigar Makers

The Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions

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