Labor's Untold Story: The adventure story of the battles, betrayals and victories of American working men and women
by Richard Boyer; Herbert MoraisAVAILABILITY: Readily Available
Publication Date: 1955, 1988
Publisher: United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE)
Binding: Paperback
Topics: LABOR AND LABORING CLASSES - HISTORY
Description: Labor's story, still untold and largely missing from text-book and conventional history, is more than an account of strikes, spies, and frame-ups, of organizing and building unions, of men and women dying for better lives in a better America. The chief quality of the book, aside from its one volume completeness, is that it is not presented as a narrow, parochial account but as the heart of the story of the American people. In a sense this book is not a history of labor at all but a history of the American people from labor's viewpoint. It is the story not only of labor but of American monopoly, showing how the trade union movement developed as a part of the American people's struggle against corporate tyranny. Labor's great leap forward into industrial unionism was an answering action to the development of trusts and the monopolized control of great industrial empires. Labor grew as monopoly grew, born of the conflict between them.
Originally published in 1955, now in its 3rd edition and 26th printing.
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