Download or read book Union Made written by Norman H. Finkelstein and published by Astra Publishing House. This book was released on 2019-06-11 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unsung hero Samuel Gompers worked tirelessly to ensure that no American worker would go unheard or overlooked, dedicating his life to fighting for their rights. This comprehensive middle-grade biography provides an in-depth look at Gompers, the founding father of the American Federation of Labor. Born in England, Samuel Gompers grew up watching his father roll cigars, and at 10 years old, started rolling them himself. After immigrating to the United States, Gompers soon discovered his vocation to fight for the American laborer in his personal work experience. His charismatic, outspoken personality soon landed him the role of speaking on behalf of his fellow workers. His participation in various unsuccessful unions and other failed ventures to enact labor changes led to his creation of the American Federation of Labor. Faced with strikes that turned violent, opposition from the government, and lies perpetrated by anti-unionizers, Gompers persevered, and lived to see various measures enacted to ensure safe work environments, workers' compensation, and other basic laborer rights.

Download or read book The Samuel Gompers Papers written by Samuel Gompers and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Samuel Gompers Papers written by Samuel Gompers and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With almost forty years' experience as a labor leader by 1909, Samuel Gompers had learned the value of practical achievements. Shorter hours, higher wages, safer and more sanitary workplaces, and a voice in establishing working conditions were the hallmarks of trade unionism in the Progressive Era, and these hard-won, incremental gains had significantly improved working-class lives. While these were not all he hoped to achieve, they represented, Gompers believed, essential victories in a bitter class struggle that was far from over. This installment of the multivolume documentary history of the nation's premier labor leader covers a period marked by industrial tragedies--such as the 1909 Cherry Hill mine disaster and the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist fire--and industrial violence, including the 1910 bombing of the Los Angeles Times building. These years were punctuated by hard-fought strikes and judicial proceedings directed against trade unionists, most notably the Danbury Hatters' and Buck's Stove cases and the prosecution of the McNamaras. For Gompers, these were demanding years that taxed his health and energy but ultimately strengthened his resolve as he became a crucial player in the AFL's efforts to establish collective bargaining as the basis of industrial democracy.

Download or read book The Samuel Gompers Papers written by Samuel Gompers and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This collection belongs on the shelf of anyone teaching American labor history, but it also should prove useful to scholars with related interests." -- Illinois Historical Journal

Download or read book Seventy Years of Life and Labor written by Samuel Gompers and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Samuel Gompers Papers written by Samuel Gompers and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This collection belongs on the shelf of anyone teaching American labor history, but it also should prove useful to scholars with related interests." -- Illinois Historical Journal

Download or read book Taking Care of Business written by Paul Buhle and published by . This book was released on 1999-04 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book explains why policies and practices at the highest levels of labour came to be counter-productive to workers' interests - a pattern the authors speculate may have been disrupted by the 1995 election of John Sweeney's "New Slate" in the AFL-CIO

Download or read book The Samuel Gompers Papers Vol 5 written by Samuel Gompers and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The years 1898-1902 were prosperous for the U.S., marked by economic growth and industrial expansion, a rising material standard of living, and low unemployment. The period was one of unprecedented growth for the American Federation of Labor (AFL), and it found Samuel Gompers continuing to advocate the organization of all workers and focusing his efforts on establishment of local and national trade unions, central labor bodies, and state federations, and on the affiliation of these organizations with the AFL. From reviews of earlier volumes "This collection belongs on the shelf of anyone teaching American labor history, but it also should prove useful to scholars with related interests." -- James Grossman, Illinois Historical Journal "Distinguished and invaluable. . . . Labor historians would be well advised to clear shelf space for it." -- Bruce Laurie, Industrial and Labor Relations Review

Download or read book Labor in Europe and America written by Samuel Gompers and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Samuel Gompers Papers The last years 1922 24 written by Samuel Gompers and published by Samuel Gompers Papers. This book was released on 1986 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Still working hard in his 70s, Samuel Gompers gave no thought to retiring. He faced a world of challenges in his final years as president of the American Federation of Labor and this volume demonstrates that even in this timultuous time he continued his forward-looking leadership of the labour movement.

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Download or read book Argument of Mr Samuel Gompers written by Samuel Gompers and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2016-05-24 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

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Download or read book Samuel Gompers and the Origins of the American Federation of Labor 1848 1896 written by Stuart Bruce Kaufman and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1973-10-04 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book American Labor and the War written by Samuel Gompers and published by New York, Doran. This book was released on 1919 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Samuel Gompers American Statesman written by Florence Calvert Thorne and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biography of Samuel Gompers, founder of the American Federation of Labor.