Shelton Stromquist

Solidarity and Survival: An Oral History of Iowa Labor in the Twentieth Century

In Solidarity and Survival, three generations of Iowa workers tell of their unrelenting efforts to create a labor movement in the coal mines and on the rails, in packinghouses and farm equipment plants, on construction sites and in hospital wards. Drawing on nearly one thousand interviews collected over more than a decade by oral historians working for the Iowa Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO, Shelton Stromquist presents the resonant voices of the men and women who defined a new, prominent place for themselves in the lives of their communities and in the politics of their state.

Friedrich A. Sorge's labor movement in the United States : a history of the American working class from 1890 to 1896

Introduction Buffalo Tennessee April 1893 Domestic Market--Financial Crisis of 1893--Silver and Tariff Legislation--Sugar and Tariff Legislation--Sugar Trust Judicial Power and Practice in the United States, 1894-1895 The Labor Movement, 1893 and 1894 The American Railway Union and the Pullman Strike The Investigation Committee--Postscript The Report of the Chicago Strike of June-July 1894 by the United States Strike Commission The Annual Convention of the Knights of Labor and the American Federation of Labor The Strike in Brooklyn and Other Events The Labor Protective Laws and the Law-Abiding Citizens of Illinois/Socialism The Labor Movement in 1895 The Presidential Election Strikes and the Progress of Social Party Index