Battling for American Labor: Wobblies, Craft Workers, and the Making of the Union Movement

In this incisive reinterpretation of the history of the American labor movement, Howard Kimeldorf challenges received thinking about rank—and—file workers and the character of their unions. Battling for American Labor answers the baffling question of how, while mounting some of the most aggressive challenges to employing classes anywhere in the world, organized labor in the United States has warmly embraced the capitalist system of which they are a part. Rejecting conventional understanding...