trade-unions

The first executive director of the Major League Baseball Players Association Union, Marvin Miller, writes of his experiences in behind the scenes basebll.

Traditionally, labor unions have spent most of their energies organizing, fighting for higher wages and bargaining for shorter hours.

Biography of one of the founders of the American Federation of Labor, whose ideas and procedures were the basis of the American labor movement.

Describes the efforts in the 1960s of Dolores Huerta to organize migrant workers in California into a union which became the United Farm Workers.

A biography of the union activist who led the struggle of migrant farm workers for better working conditions.

Traces the history of the labor movement in America through a collection of primary source documents, as well as the thoughts of Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Cesar Chavez, Eugene Debs, and others.

A brief biography of the migrant farm worker who led the nation-wide boycott of grapes as part of his movement to organize and help farm laborers in the United States.