The Fall of the House of Labor : The Workplace, the State, and American Labor Activism, 1865–1925

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Studies the ways in which American industrial workers mobilised concerted action in their own interests. Sustained class conflict between 1916 and 1922 reshaped governmental and business policies, but left labour largely unorganised and in retreat. When labour activism was reinvigorated after 1933, the movement split in two.