Robert Bussel

Shifting fortunes : the rise and decline of American labor, from the 1820s to the present

Chapter 1: Union Growth in Perspective Chapter 2: Miners and Organized Labor Chapter 3: Urban Workers and Organized Labor Chapter 4: New Environments, New Challenges, 1897-1930 Chapter 5: The Labor Movement at High Tide, 1930-1953 Chapter 6: The Decline of American Labor

Power at Odds: The 1922 National Railroad Shopmen's Strike.

During the tumultuous era of World War I and the years immediately following, the leadership of the United States had shifted from Wilson to Harding and the mood of the nation from pro-labor to pro-business. Colin Davis introduces readers to the 400,000 railroad shopmen and their working world and to the national governments dynamic influence on labor from 1917 to 1922. Daviss study provides a much-needed synthesis of shifting power relations among labor, capital, and the state, as well as a cogent interpretation of union structural experimentation and failure. It will be of interest to social, political, business, legal, and labor historians.