Routledge
Hardback
1800
39022
The Encyclopedia of US Labor and Working-Class History provides sweeping coverage of US labor history. Containing over 650 entries the Encyclopedia encompasses labor history from the colonial era to the present. Articles focus on states regions periods economic sectors and occupations race-relations ethnicity and religion concepts and developments in labor economics environmentalism globalization legal history trade unions strikes organizations individuals management relations and government agencies and commissions. Articles cover such issues as immigration and migratory labor women and labor labor in every war effort slavery and the slave-trade union-resistance by corporations such as Wal-Mart and the history of cronyism and corruption and the mafia within elements of labor history. Labor history is also considered in its representation in film music literature and education. Important articles cover the perception of working-class culture such as the surge in sympathy for the working class following September 11 2001. Written as an objective social history the Encyclopedia encapsulates the rise and decline and continuous change of US labor history into the twenty-first century.