Here are the life stories of the men and women who have led the labor movement in America from Reconstruction to recent times, from William H. Sylvis, the first major labor leader, to Cesar Chavez, who organized California's farm workers in the 1960s. All of the chapters have been written expressly for this volume by leading authorities, several of whom are authors of booklength biographies of their subjects. Taken together these readable yet authoritative life studies provide a broad overview of the American labor movement that will appeal to the student and lay reader as well as to the specialist in social history and labor and industrial relations.
- ISBN10 0252013271
- ISBN13 9780252013270
- Publish Date 1 October 1990 (first published 1 January 1987)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 18 September 2006
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of Illinois Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 416
- Language English