This book, designed to give a survey history of American labor from
colonial times to the present, is uniquely well suited to speak to the
concerns of today's teachers and students. As issues of growing
inequality, stagnating incomes, declining unionization, and exacerbated
job insecurity have increasingly come to define working life over the
last 20 years, a new generation of students and teachers is beginning to
seek to understand labor and its place and ponder seriously its future
in American life. Like its predecessors, this ninth edition of our
classic survey of American labor is designed to introduce readers to the
subject in an engaging, accessible way.