CHAPTER
1 Labor movements before the civil war
(1) Early Beginnings, to 1827
8
(2) Equal Citizenship, 1827-1832
9
(3) The Period of the “Wild-Cat”
Prosperity,
1833-1837
18
(4) The Long Depression, 1837-1862
29
2 The “Greenback” Period, 1862-1879 42
3 The beginning of the Knights
of labor and of
the American federation
of labor 68
4 Revival and upheaval, 1879-1887 81
5 The victory of craft unionism
and the final
failure of producers’
cooperation 106
6 Stabilization, 1888-1897 130
7 Trade unionism and the courts 146
PART II. THE LARGER CAREER OF UNIONISM
8 Partial recognition and new
difficulties,
1898-1914
163
(1) The Miners 167 (2) The Railway Men 180 (3) The Machinery and Metal Trades 186 (4) The Employers’ Reaction 190 (5) Legislation, Courts, and Politics 198
9 Radical unionism and A “Counter-reformation” 208
10 The war-time balance sheet 226
11 Recent developments 245
PART III. CONCLUSIONS AND INFERENCES
12 An economic interpretation 265
13 The idealistic factor 279
14 Why there is not an American labor party 285
15 The dictatorship of the proletariat
and
trade unionism
295
BIBLIOGRAPHY 307
PART I
THE STRUGGLE FOR SURVIVAL
History of trade unionism in the U.S.
CHAPTER 1
LABOR MOVEMENTS BEFORE THE CIVIL WAR