This book studies the changing ways in which American industrial workers mobilised concerted action in their own interests between the abolition of slavery and the end of open immigration from Europe and Asia.

Union members, community activists, students, and all who support worker justice should read this book.”—Kent Wong, Director, Labor Center, University of California, Los Angeles "The volume embraces more than California’s rich labor ...

In this third edition of his highly acclaimed and influential study, Albert Rees updates his material to reflect the major changes in the labor scene occurring during the 1970s and 1980s.

This book tells the story of the rise and decline of the United Electrical, Radio, and Machine Workers of America (UE) from 1933 to 1990.

This book studies the conditions under which labor and capital collaborate in support of the same trade policies.

Includes separately paged "Junior union section."