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This book offers a comprehensive historical account of the emergence of organized labor in the United States. The author traces the origins of labor movements in the colonial and revolutionary eras, exploring the impact of the Industrial Revolution on the working class. This work delves into the interplay between labor organizations and the legal, political, and economic forces that shaped their development. The author analyzes the changing strategies and tactics adopted by unions, from collective bargaining to political activism, and examines their ongoing efforts to improve working conditions and wages. This book not only provides a valuable overview of the history of organized labor in the United States but also offers insights into the fundamental tensions between capital and labor that continue to shape modern societies.
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Preceding the nineteenth century and the use of natural power and machinery, leisure and comfort were considered to be the birthright of only a few. Hard and almost continuous toil on the part of the multitude was necessary to eke out an existence. With the enormous increase in the productive capacity of the world has come the possibility of a shorter working day and of a rising standard of living for the mass of toilers. Modern unionism has for its direct aim the betterment of working conditions; and such betterment has been made pos sible through the technical advances consummated during recent generations. The first unions were exclusive and monopolis tic; they aimed to raise a few workers in a given trade. The present tendency is toward more inclusive organization, in order to secure for labor as a class a portion of the benefits of indus trial progress. NO wide-spread and inclusive labor organiza tion could exist until the long era of scarcity was succeeded by one in which a sufficiency is possible for all. Labor organiza tions do not become important factors in the community until after the problems centering around the distribution of wealth, rather than around the production of wealth, become of fore most importance. In a democracy, modern labor unions may utilize two forms of activity in order to accomplish their pur poses, - purely economic and political. Up to the present time, the chief reliance of the unionists has been placed upon the purely economic activities.
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The aim of this volume is to present briefly the important facts in the history of organized labor in the United States, to analyze the chief problems which directly or indirectly affect the labor organizations of the present decade, and to evaluate the functions of organized labor in the industrial and political world. The history of American labor organizations presents to the observer a rapidly changing and almost bewildering picture of which few careful studies have been made. The government, ideals, practices, solidarity, and inter-relationships of such organizations have experienced, and are at present undergoing, a variety of transformations. It is the purpose of the writer to present to the student of industrial problems and to the general reader a straightforward study of the forces which have caused labor organizations to appear and to assume a variety of forms. The aim is not to justify or to condemn the practices and ideals of organized labor or of employers' associations, but to analyze the phenomena of which the practices and ideals are the visible manifestations. Labor organizations, employers' associations, strikes, boycotts, the demand for the closed shop, the sweating system, and the ideals and point of view of organized labor or of organized capital are evolved through the play of social forces working within the economic field. The modem labor problem cannot be understood, and certainly cannot be solved, until the underlying causative forces, new and old, physical and social, are laid bare.
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