labor movement

Alphabetically-arranged entries cover the people, events, organizations, and court cases that have influenced the organization of American labor. Also pinpoints major labor issues like children in the workplace, the eight-hour working day, job safety, minimum wages, and others.

Chronicles the events surrounding three major workers' strikes which occurred in the early twentieth century and discusses how those strikes changed the labor force forever.

Examines the gathering threats to Americans' standard of living and the government's failure to address them and offers a bold plan for making vital reforms.

Honora and Sexton throw themselves into the beach house they are renting, and which Sexton is buying, but his timing is wrong and financial pressures mount. As the economy staggers, Honora realizes she doesn't really know this man she has married. As their world flies apart, bonds with others on the beach bind them all together.

Discusses the violent Pullman strike of 1894, which closed railroads across the midwestern United States and made the nation's leaders see the need for addressing the concerns of the country's workers.

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.

Fourteen-year-old Pat McFarlane, forced to go to work as a breaker boy in a Pennsylvania coal mine after the death of his father, wonders how his already poverty-stricken family will survive when the miners, spurred on by unionist John Mitchell, call a strike in 1902.

Examines Eleanor Roosevelt's ties to the American labor movement as an advocate and as a member of the AFL-CIO's Newspaper Guild, discussing her vision of labor rights as human rights, and looking at the friends and criticism she drew in her support for workers.

A biography of the woman who fought for the rights of miners, railroad workers, and mill and factory workers illustrated with photographs and drawings. She was most famous for leading a twenty-day protest march walking 125 miles to see the president of the United States to protest against child labor.

An account of the life of Mary "Mother" Jones, a leading labor union and child labor activist in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Presented in graphic format.