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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 ......
This colorful and perceptive study presents persuasive evidence that the saloon, far from being a magnet for vice and crime, played an important role in working-class community life. Focusing on public drinking in ''wide open'' Chicago and tightly controlled Boston, Duis offers a provocative discussion of the saloon as a social institution and a ......
A new generation of American medieval art historians explores how sacred images were perceived during the Middle Ages in Byzantium and Europe. The essays cover a full range of images, including panel paintings, altarpieces, manuscripts, and wall paintings, and a rich variety of socioreligious settings, private, monastic, and imperial. Also ......
Now in paperback, The Rural Face of White Supremacy presents a detailed study of the daily experiences of ordinary people in rural Hancock County, Georgia. Drawing on his own interviews with over two hundred black and white residents, Mark Schultz argues that the residents acted on the basis of personal rather than institutional relationships. As ......
