Tramps & Trade Union Travelers: Internal Migration and Organized Labor in Gilded Age America, 1870-1900

From the author of On New Terrain, a historical examination of why American workers never organized in early industrial America and what it means today.

Why has there been no viable, independent labor party in the United States? Many people assert "American exceptionalist" arguments, which state a lack of class-consciousness and union tradition among American workers is to blame. While the racial, ethnic, and gender divisions within the American working class have created organizational cha...