Cover of A history of America in ten strikes

Book 2018

A history of America in ten strikes

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Language
English
Published
2018
  • History
  • Strikes and lockouts
  • Labor disputes

"... labor historian Erik Loomis recounts ten critical workers’ strikes in American labor history that everyone needs to know about (and then provides an annotated list of the 150 most important moments in American labor history in the appendix). From the Lowell Mill Girls strike in the 1830s to Justice for Janitors in 1990, these labor uprisings do not just reflect the times in which they occurred, but speak directly to the present moment"--