The world of the worker : labor in twentieth-century America / James R. Green ; consulting editor, Eric Foner.

This text illuminates workers' lives at home, on the job, and in the voting booths.

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:American century series.
Main Author: Green, James R., 1944-2016
Other Authors: Foner, Eric, 1943-
Language:English
Published: New York : Hill and Wang, [1980], ©1980.
Series:American century series.
Subjects:
Working class > United States > History.
Labor unions > United States > History.
Physical Description:xiv, 274 pages ; 22 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • The company town and the urban ghetto
  • Rebuilding the House of Labor
  • The struggle for control in the progressive era
  • The new capitalism and the old unionism in the 1920s
  • The Depression, the New Deal, and the new industrial unions
  • The House of Labor divided
  • The workers' changing world, 1950-1980.