What did Gompers start?

Labor History

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 189-191

  Kazin, Michael ^a  

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EID: 0033411121     PISSN: 0023656X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00236719912331387600     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (11)

1. Julie Greene, Pure and Simple Politics: The American Federation of Labor and Political Activism, 1881-1917 (Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998).
2. Besides works by the participants in this, recent contributions of note include Gwendolyn Mink, Old Labor and New Immigrants in American Political Development: Union, Party, and State, 1875-1920 (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1986); Dana Frank, Purchasing Power: Consumer Organizing, Gender, and the Seattle Labor Movement, 1919-1929 (Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994); Joseph McCartin, Labor's Great War (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998); and the last half of David Montgomery, The Fall of the House of Labor: Workplace, the State, and American Labor Activism, 1865-1925 (Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987).
3. Besides works by the participants in this, recent contributions of note include Gwendolyn Mink, Old Labor and New Immigrants in American Political Development: Union, Party, and State, 1875-1920 (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1986); Dana Frank, Purchasing Power: Consumer Organizing, Gender, and the Seattle Labor Movement, 1919-1929 (Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994); Joseph McCartin, Labor's Great War (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998); and the last half of David Montgomery, The Fall of the House of Labor: Workplace, the State, and American Labor Activism, 1865-1925 (Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987).
4. Besides works by the participants in this, recent contributions of note include Gwendolyn Mink, Old Labor and New Immigrants in American Political Development: Union, Party, and State, 1875-1920 (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1986); Dana Frank, Purchasing Power: Consumer Organizing, Gender, and the Seattle Labor Movement, 1919-1929 (Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994); Joseph McCartin, Labor's Great War (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998); and the last half of David Montgomery, The Fall of the House of Labor: Workplace, the State, and American Labor Activism, 1865-1925 (Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987).
5. Besides works by the participants in this, recent contributions of note include Gwendolyn Mink, Old Labor and New Immigrants in American Political Development: Union, Party, and State, 1875-1920 (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1986); Dana Frank, Purchasing Power: Consumer Organizing, Gender, and the Seattle Labor Movement, 1919-1929 (Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994); Joseph McCartin, Labor's Great War (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998); and the last half of David Montgomery, The Fall of the House of Labor: Workplace, the State, and American Labor Activism, 1865-1925 (Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987).
6. A fascinating study of how grassroots activism helped forge this new order is Elisabeth S. Clemens, The People's Lobby: Organizational Innovation and the Rise of Interest Group Politics in the United States, 1890-1925 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997).
7. Quoted in David Sarasohn, The Party of Reform: Democrats in the Progressive Era (Jackson, MS: University of Mississippi Press, 1989), xi.
8. On the limits, see Mike Davis, Prisoners of the American Dream: Politics and Economy in the History of the US Working Class (London: Verso, 1986), 52-101. On some of the achievements, see Melvyn Dubofsky, The State and Labor in Modern America (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1994). A recent anthology which probes the subject and includes an essay by Julie Greene is Organized Labor and American Politics, 1894-1994: The Labor-Liberal Alliance, Kevin Boyle, ed. (Albany: SUNY Press, 1998).
9. On the limits, see Mike Davis, Prisoners of the American Dream: Politics and Economy in the History of the US Working Class (London: Verso, 1986), 52-101. On some of the achievements, see Melvyn Dubofsky, The State and Labor in Modern America (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1994). A recent anthology which probes the subject and includes an essay by Julie Greene is Organized Labor and American Politics, 1894-1994: The Labor-Liberal Alliance, Kevin Boyle, ed. (Albany: SUNY Press, 1998).
10. On the limits, see Mike Davis, Prisoners of the American Dream: Politics and Economy in the History of the US Working Class (London: Verso, 1986), 52-101. On some of the achievements, see Melvyn Dubofsky, The State and Labor in Modern America (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1994). A recent anthology which probes the subject and includes an essay by Julie Greene is Organized Labor and American Politics, 1894-1994: The Labor-Liberal Alliance, Kevin Boyle, ed. (Albany: SUNY Press, 1998).
11. I have attempted to analyze this world-view in The Populist Persuasion: An American History, revised edition (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1998), 48-77.