Books in the Labor in America series

First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Eight substantially revised papers from the June 1993 Lowell Conference on Industrial History explore how slavery, though regionally based in the south, was a national phenomenon that engaged and benefitted the economically powerful in all parts of the US. Some detail how the economic interests of

Leaders and activists associated with the mainstream American Federation of Labor after the election of reformer John Sweeney as president in 1995 offer their plans and visions for the labor movement. In 13 original essays they cover democracy, ideology, and change; organizing the unorganized; dive

First published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Southern cotton planters and Northern textile mill owners maintained what has been called "an unholy alliance between the lords of the lash and the lords of the loom." This collection of essays focuses on the central role of slavery in the early development of industrialization in the United States as well as on the interconnections among the histories of African Americans, women, and labor.

First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

First Published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.