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Tables of Contents for U.S. Labor in the 20th Century
Chapter/Section Title
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Page Count
PART ONE: THE WORKING CLASS STILL MATTERS
Why the Working class Still Matters
13
11
Paul Le Blanc
John Hinshaw
The Making of the American Working Class
24
15
Harry Braverman
Working-Class Studies: Where It's Been Lately and Where It's Going
39
24
Sherry Linkon
Bill Mullen
John Russo
susan Russo
Linda Strom
PART TWO: DIVERSITY, INSURGENCY, AND FRAGMENTATION
Ethnic Organizing: A Double-Edged Sword
63
9
Dan Georgakas
The Appeal to Reason and the Mass Socialist Movement Before World War I
72
10
David Riehle
Representations of Women in Narratives About the Great Steel Strike of 1919
82
10
David Demarest
Reflections on the Great Migration to Western Pennsylvania
92
9
Joe w. Trotter
The Gendered Social world of Steelmaking: A Case Study of Bethlehem Steel's Sparrows Point Plant
101
28
Karen Olson
PART THREE: THE OPPORTUNITIES OF LABOR RADICALISM
Revolutionary Vanguards in the United States During the 1930s
129
33
Paul Le Blanc
The Role of Women, and of Radicals, in the First Sit-Down Strikes An Interview with Genora Johnson Dollinger
162
16
Kathleen O'Nan
Opportunities Found and Lost: Labor, Radicals, and the Early Civil Rights Movement
178
28
Robert Korstad
Nelson Liechtenstein
A. Philip Randolph and the Foundations of Black Socialism
206
29
Manning Marable
PART FOUR AFFLUENCE, POSSIBILITIES, AND PROBLEMS
Working-Class Lives/Working-Class Studies: A Historian's Perspective
235
11
Lizabeth Cohen
Modest but Adequate: Standard of Living for Mon Valley Steelworkers in the Union Era
246
17
Mark McColloch
We Are the Union
263
32
Ed Mann
Black Workers' Struggles for Jobs and Civil Rights in Twentieth-Century Pittsburgh
295
34
John Hinshaw
PART FIVE: APPLYING THE LESSONS OF THE PAST
Why Unions Matter
329
11
Elaine Bernard
A Century of Struggle in Homestead: Working-Class Responses to Corporate Power
340
19
Irwin M. Marcus
The Role of Labor Today: Reflections on the Past Throw Light on the Road Ahead
359
10
James. J. Matles
Seeds of a Labor Insurgency
369
13
Peter Rachleff
The Struggle for Survival
382
11
General Baker
Contributors
393