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This text, designed for courses in US labor history or the history of American workers, presents a carefully selected group of readings that allow students to evaluate primary sources, test the interpretations of distinguished historians, and draw their own conclusions. Major Problems in the History of American Workers follows the proven Major Problems format, with 14-15 chapters per volume, a combination of documents and essays, chapter introductions, headnotes, and suggested readings.
Contents
1. The Meaning of Work and the History of LaborESSAYSHarvey Swados, The Myth of the Happy WorkerBarbara Ehrenreich, Working Poor Blues2. The Labor Systems of Early AmericaDOCUMENTS1. An Indentured Servant Writes Home, 16232. The Trappan'd Maiden: Or The Distressed Damsel" (Popular Song, Mid-1600s)3. Traveler Peter Kalm on Unfree Labor in Pennsylvania, 17534. African Prince Olaudah Equiano Survives the Middle Passage, 17915. Ruth Belknap, a Country Parson's Wife, on "The Pleasures of a Country Life," c. 17826. Eulalia Perez Remembers Early California, 18237. Report on the Indian Villages of San Diego County, 1873ESSAYSRichard S. Dunn, Servants and Slaves in the EastHoward Lamar, Bonded and Contract Labor in the Southwest3. From the Artisan's Republic to the Factory SystemDOCUMENTS1. David Johnson Remembers Apprenticeship Life in the Artisan Shoe Shop, 18302. Jessie Hutchinson, "Cordwainers' Rallying Song," 18443. A Reporter's Account of Lynn Women's Mass Meeting During the Great Strike, 18604. Amelia, a Woman Worker, Protests Lowell Wage Slavery, 18455. Journeymen Tailors Protest Wage Slavery, 18366. Frederick Douglass Confronts Working-Class Racism, 1836ESSAYSAlan Dawley, Lynn Shoemakers and the Solidarity of ClassDavid R. Roediger, White Artisans and the Solidarity of Race4. Slavery and the Transition to Free LaborDOCUMENTS1. Slave Production at Pleasant Hill Plantation, 18502. Slave Solomon Northup's View of Cotton Planting and Harvesting, 18543. A Planter on Child Rearing, 18364. A Northern Unionist Lectures Ex-Slaves on the Work Ethic, 18655. "We Demand Land": Petition by Southern Freedmen, 18656. African-American Washerwomen Demand Higher Wages, 18667. "Colored" vs. Chinese in Galveston, 18778. Sharecropper Nate Shaw Makes His Crop, 1913ESSAYSEugene Genovese, The Plantation Work EthicEric Foner, Emancipation and the Reconstruction of Southern Labor5. The Age of Industrial ConflictDOCUMENTS1. Haymarket Anarchist Michael Schwab Fights for Freedom, 18862. "Freedom," Poem by Haymarket Anarchist Albert R. Parsons, 18863. "Labor's Great Army," 18894. Samuel Gompers Defends the Strike, 18995. Preamble of the Industrial Workers of the World, 19056. Fitz John Porter Explains How to Quell Mobs, 18857. George Pullman Defends Managerial Paternalism, 1894ESSAYSJeremy Brecher, The Great UpheavalJames Green, Remembering Haymarket: Chicago's Labor Martyrs and Their Legacy6. From Peasant to ProletarianDOCUMENTS1. Economist John R. Commons Denounces the "Sweating System," 19012. Investigator John Fitch Describes Steel's Long Shift, 19123. Photographer Lewis Hine Depicts Child Laborers in the New York City Tenements, 19114. African Americans Seek Work in the North, 19175. Helen B. Sayre Praises the Progress of Negro Women in Industry, 19246. California Employers Evaluate Foreign Beet Workers, 19117. "Chinaman, Laundryman" Poet H.T. Tsiang Defends Chinese Immigrants, 1929ESSAYSHerbert Gutman, The Cultures of First-Generation Industrial WorkersRonald Takaki, Asian Immigrants Raising Cane: The World of Plantation Hawaii7. Cultures of the WorkplaceDOCUMENTS1. Miner John Brophy Learns His Trade, 19072. A Student's View of "Soldiering," 19313. Frederick Winslow Taylor Explains the Principles of Scientific Management, 19164. An A.F.L. View of Women Workers in Industry, 18975. The Shirtwaist Strikers Win, 19106. Unionist Alice Henry Outlines Why Women Need Their Own Local Unions, 1915ESSAYSDavid Montgomery, Work Rules and Manliness in the World of the Nineteenth-Century CraftsmanNan Enstad, French Heels and Ladyhood in the World of Early-Twentieth-Century Garment StrikersPhotograph Essay: American at Work in the Industrial Era8. Labor in the Progressive EraDOCUMENTS1. In re Debs, 18952. Muller v. Oregon, 19083. Atkins v. Children's Hospital, 19234. The American Federation of Labor Embraces Equal Pay for Equal Work, 19175. Industrial Democracy Needed for the War Effort, 19176. President Woodrow Wilson on the Labor Question, 1919ESSAYSAlice Kessler-Harris, Law and Free LaborJoseph A. McCartin, Fighting for Industrial Democracy in World War I9. Industrial Unionism During the Great DepressionDOCUMENTS1. Preamble of the National Labor Relations Act, 19352. Communist John Steuben Organizes Steel, 19363. Mrs. Violet Baggett Joins the Union, 19374. White Collar Workers Organize, 19385. A Union Man Gets His Job Back, 19386. Stanley Nowak Organizes a Slowdown Strike, 19377. For UAW Shop Stewards: "How to Win for the Union," 19418. Union Leaders Oppose Shop-Floor Agitators, 1941ESSAYSMelvyn Dubofsky, Not So Radical Years: Another Look at the 1930sBruce Nelson, Radical Years: Working-Class Consciousness on the Waterfront in the 1930s10. Race, Gender, and Industrial Unionism in World War II and Its AftermathDOCUMENTS1. President Franklin Roosevelt Establishs a Committee on Fair Employment Practice, 19412. Mildred Keith Protests Discrimination, 19423. The War Labor Board Assails Workplace Racism, 19434. The War Labor Board Orders Equal Pay for Equal Work, 19445. The Crisis Predicts a Surge in NAACP Membership, 19436. Women's Work in a California Warplane Factory, 1941-1945ESSAYSRobert Korstad and Nelson Lichtenstein, How Organized Black Workers Brought Civil Rights to the SouthEileen Boris, Racialized Bodies on the Homefront11. Trade Unions in the Postwar YearsDOCUMENTS1. The CIO Attacks a Communist-Led Union, 19492. Betty Friedan Argues for Trade Union Feminism, 19523. Arbitrator Harry Shulman Upholds the Authority of Ford Supervision, 19444. Shop Steward B.J. Widick Outlines the Frustrations of the Contract System, 19545. Fortune Magazine Applauds the U.S. Labor Movement, 1951ESSAYSEllen Schrecker, Labor Encounters the Anticommunist CrusadeNelson Lichtenstein, The Unions' Retreat in the Postwar Era12. New Unionists of the 1960sDOCUMENTS1. The American Federation of Teachers on the Rights of Teachers, 19512. The March on Washington Demands Jobs and Freedom, 19633. Union Leader Taylor Rogers Relives the Memphis Sanitation Strike (1968), 20004. Cesar E. Chavez, Good Friday Message, 1969ESSAYSMarjorie Murphy, Collective Bargaining: The Coming of Age of Teacher UnionismMichael Honey, Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Memphis Sanitation Strike13. White Collars, Pink Collars, and Hard HatsDOCUMENTS1. Sociologist Daniel Bell's "Post-Industrial" Vision, 19732. Fred Roman on the Life of an Accountant, 19723. Lee Radler Archacki Explains Why She Chose the Night Shift, 19794. Computerized Order Taking at McDonald's, 19885. Sex Discrimination in the Skies, 19676. The Scandal Behind Soaring Construction Costs, 1972ESSAYSJoshua Freedman, Construction Workers Defend Their ManhoodDorothy Sue Cobble, Feminism Transforms Women Service Workers14. Mobile Capital, Migrating WorkersDOCUMENTS1. Management's Weapon: Scab Labor, 19902. A Unionist Blasts Overseas Office Work, 19873. Temp Blues, 19944. Sweatshop Workers Speak Out, 19985. The AFL-CIO Defends Immigrant Workers, 20006. The Battle in Seattle, 19997. Senseless in Seattle, 1999ESSAYSKim Moody, A Certain Kind of GlobalizationAndrew Ross, Sweated Labor in CyberspaceGrace Chang, The Nanny Visa15. New Labor, New CenturyDOCUMENTS1. John Sweeney's Victory Speech Before the AFL-CIO, 19952. Harvard Union Clerical and Technical Workers State Their Principles, 19883. Queremos Justicia! We Want Justice! 19964. Big Win at UPS! 19975. Republican Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Promotes California's Proposition 226 as "Paycheck Protection," 1998ESSAYSHarold Meyerson, A New AFL-CIORobin D. G. Kelley, How the New Working Class Can Transform Urban AmericaGordon Lafer, Graduate Student Unions Fight the Corporate UniversityAppendix: American Labor: A Statistical Portrait"
