Workers in America: A Historical Encyclopedia

Author Robert E. Weir

Publisher ABC-CLIO

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Author

Robert E. Weir

Publisher

ABC-CLIO

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Copyright

2012

ISBN13

9781598847192

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Grade Level

9th Grade - College Senior

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Overview

This encyclopedia traces the evolution of American workers and labor organizations from pre-Revolutionary America through the present day.
Front Cover.
Half Title Page.
Title Page.
Copyright Page.
Contents.
Preface.
Acknowledgments.
How to Use this Work.
1: Actors and Labor.
2: Adair v. The United States.
3: Adamson Act.
4: Affirmative Action.
5: Agency Fee.
6: Agent Provocateur.
7: Agrarianism.
8: Agricultural Labor Relations Act.
9: Airline Strikes.
10: Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel, and Tin Workers.
11: Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America.
12: American Federation of Government Employees.
13: American Federation of Labor.
14: American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations.
15: American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees.
16: American Federation of Teachers.
17: American Plan.
18: American Railway Union.
19: Anarchism.
20: Anarcho-Syndicalism.
21: Anthracite Coal Strike of 1902.
22: A. Philip Randolph Institute.
23: Apprentice.
24: Arbitration/Conciliation/Mediation.
25: Aristocrats of Labor.
26: Artisan Labor.
27: Asian American Labor.
28: Assembly-Line Production.
29: Association of Catholic Trade Unionists.
30: Automation.
31: Bacon’s Rebellion.
32: Bagley, Sarah.
33: Barry, Leonora Marie.
34: Battle of Blair Mountain.
35: Bellamy, Edward.
36: Bituminous Coal Strikes of 1974 and 1977–1978.
37: Blacklist.
38: Black Lung Disease and Strike.
39: Blue-Collar Labor.
40: Boston Police Strike of 1919.
41: Boulwarism.
42: Boycott.
43: Braceros.
44: Brewery Workers.
45: Bridges, Harry.
46: Bridgestone-Firestone Strike, 1994–1995.
47: Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers.
48: Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters.
49: Browder, Earl Russell.
50: Buck’s Stove & Range Co. v. American Federation of Labor et al..
51: Bumping.
52: Bureau of Labor Statistics.
53: Business Agent.
54: Business Roundtable.
55: Business Unionism.
56: Butchers.
57: Capitalism.
58: Carey, James Barron.
59: Caterpillar Strike.
60: Centralia Massacre.
61: Central Labor Union.
62: Certification.
63: Change to Win Federation.
64: Chávez, César Est
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