Labor Leaders In America
Expert profiles of important labor figures
Paper – $32
978-0-252-01343-0
Publication Date
Paperback: 01/01/1987
About the Book
Here are the life stories of the men and women who have led the labor movement in America from Reconstruction to recent times, from William H. Sylvis, the first major labor leader, to Cesar Chavez, who organized California's farm workers in the 1960s.All of the chapters have been written expressly for this volume by leading authorities, several of whom are authors of book length biographies of their subjects. Taken together, these readable yet authoritative life studies provide a broad overview of the American labor movement that will appeal to the student and lay reader as well as to the specialist in social history and labor and industrial relations. Profiles include: William H. Sylvis, Terence V. Powderly, Samuel Gompers, Eugene V. Debs, William D. "Big Bill" Haywood, William Green, Rose Schneiderman, John L. Lewis, Sidney Hillman, Philip Murray, A. Philip Randolph, Walter Reuther, Jimmy Hoffa, George Meany, and Cesar Chavez
About the Author
Melvyn Dubofsky is Distinguished Professor of History and Sociology at the State University of New York at Binghamton. His books include We Shall Be All: A History of the IWW. Warren Van Tine is an emeritus professor of history at The Ohio State University and author of The Making of the Labor Bureaucrat. Dubofsky and Van Tine are also coauthors of John L. Lewis: A Biography.Also by this author
Reviews
"An excellent collection that is at once a valuable reference tool and, more important, an original contribution to the expanding field of American labor history."--John Bodnar, coauthor of Lives of Their Own: Blacks, Italians, and Poles in Pittsburgh, 1900-1960Related Titles
