History of the Labor Movement in the U.S. Vol. 1

Labor movement

By Philip S. Foner

This volume covers colonial labor conditions and the emergence of early labor struggles, the development of industry, early labor unions and the attempts to forge a labor party. It has chapters on labor and slavery and labor and the civil war and reconstruction. The Knights of Labor, independent political action and the founding of the modern labor movement -1878-1881-concludes this volume.

"...ably written, well organized and carefully documented, will prove of value to all students of American labor history."
-Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science

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