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Overview
Work and Struggle: Voices from U.S. Labor Radicalism focuses on the history of U.S. labor with an emphasis on radical currents, which have been essential elements in the working-class movement from the mid nineteenth century to the late twentieth century. Showcasing some of labor's most important leaders, Work and Struggle offers students and instructors a variety of voices to learn from — each telling their story through their own words — through writings, memoirs and speeches, transcribed and introduced here by Paul Le Blanc. This collection of revolutionary voices will inspire anyone interested in the history of labor organizing.
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Meet the Author
Paul Le Blanc is Professor of History at La Roche College in Pittsburgh, PA, where he served as Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences from 2003 to 2009. He has also worked as a unionized healthcare worker, service employee, shipyard worker, and auto worker. He is author of a number of books on labor and social movements, including Marx, Lenin and the Revolutionary Experience: Studies of Communism and Radicalism in the Age of Globalization (Routledge), and was most recently an editor of The International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest: 1500 to the Present.
Table of Contents
Preface and Acknowledgments vii
List of Abbreviations x
Part 1 The Meaning and Reality of Labor Radicalism 1
Chapter 1 Understanding Labor Radicalism 3
Chapter 2 Revolutionary Currents in the U.S. Labor Movement 21
Part 2 Voices of U.S. Labor Radicalism 61
Chapter 3 Thomas Paine 65
Chapter 4 Frances Wright 81
Chapter 5 Frederick Douglass 95
Chapter 6 William Sylvis 111
Chapter 7 Terence V. Powderly 125
Chapter 8 Albert R. Parsons 139
Chapter 9 Mary Harris Jones 151
Chapter 10 Eugene V. Debs 163
Chapter 11 Fannia M. Cohn 179
Chapter 12 John L. Lewis 195
Chapter 13 A. Philip Randolph 215
Chapter 14 Genora Johnson Dollinger 231
Chapter 15 Cesar Chavez 245
Chapter 16 James Matles 257
Notes 273
Bibliography 285
Index 289