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Samuel Gompers (1850-1924) devoted his life to improving the conditions of American workers through better wages, shorter workdays, and safer workplaces, achieved through common effort, democratic organization, and practical action. His objective was betterment, or, as he often said, ''more.'' His moral vision was grounded in a commitment to ......
Still working hard in his seventies, Samuel Gompers gave no thought to retiring. But he faced a world of challenges in his final years as president of the American Federation of Labor. Ascendant Republicans were hostile. Conflicts over tactics and strategies divided the labour movement. And continuing unemployment kept the workforce in check. ......
Volume 11 of the Samuel Gompers Papers documents a pivotal moment in labor history, when the wartime promise of industrial democracy gave way to business as usual in the postwar world. Spanning a turbulent period of wildcat strikes, racial unrest, and political experimentation, this volume presents the efforts of Gompers and the AFL to defend ......
vol. 9: The American Federation of Labor at the Height of Progressivism, 1913-17
Between 1913 and 1917, the American Federation of Labor launched a wide-ranging campaign to organize women workers, expanded the Labor Forward Movement to organize the unorganized, tested new methods of reaching unskilled workers, and welcomed new unions into the fold. In this ninth volume of documentary history of the nation's premier labor ......
The American Federation of Labor under Siege, 1906-9
Looking around him in 1906, Samuel Gompers saw a labor movement beset by opponents who, he said, ''represent neither conscience nor humanity, but rather greed and avarice.'' This installment in the multivolume documentary history of the nation's premier labor leader spotlights a pivotal period in the AFL's development. From early reviews: ''The ......
''This collection belongs on the shelf of anyone teaching American labor history, but it also should prove useful to scholars with related interests.'' -- Illinois Historical Journal
The American Federation of Labor and the Great War, 1917-18
Volume 10 of the Samuel Gompers Papers focuses on the AFL's struggle to serve the nation and the labor movement during the critical period when American neutrality gave way to war. Beginning with Gompers' last minute effort to persuade German workers to avoid war with the United States, it follows the labor movement's internal debate over the ......
The Salt HourPoems by J. P. WhiteWith this dazzling collection, J. P. White embarks on a windswept journey through seductive, treacherous waterways. Conveying a stormy sense of place defined less by geography than by the push and pull of the mind at odds with circumstance, these bracing poems plumb the depths of the sea and of the human heart in ......
