Table of Contents

Part 1 Preface ix Part 2 UNION GROWTH IN PERSPECTIVE 3 Chapter 3 Accounting for membership fluctuations. Worker autonomy. Reprisals. The organizing enviroment. Part 4 MINERS AND ORGANIZED LABOR 15 Chapter 5 Perspective: 1894. Miners and Mining. Miners' unions, 1850-1894. Part 6 URBAN WORKERS AND ORGANIZED LABOR 39 Chapter 7 Perspective: 1888. Beginnings of the urban labor movement. Expansion and change, 1860s-1870s. The great upheaval and after, 1880s-1897. Part 8 NEW ENVIROMENTS, NEW CHALLENGES, 1897-1930 69 Chapter 9 Perspective: 1922. Miners and industrial relations, 1897-1915. Expansion and reaction in the cities. Organizing factory workers, 1904-1915. World War I and after, 1915-1922. A lost decade, 1920-1930? Part 10 THE LABOR MOVEMENT AT HIGH TIDE, 1930-1953 104 Chapter 11 Perspective: 1937. Foundations of a new era, 1933-1938. Revival and expansion, 1938-1953. Part 12 THE DECLINE OF AMERICAN LABOR 131 Chapter 13 Perspective: 1996. Origins of decline. Employer of offensives. Collapse. Rebirth? Part 14 A Note on Sources 164 Part 15 Index 176