American labor history: a conspiracy of silence?

From: Monthly Labor Review | Date: August 1, 1987| Author: Rosenzweig, Roy | Copyright information

American labor history: a conspiracy of silence?

Within the universities, the field of labor history is flourishing as never before. First-rate scholarly books and articles issue forth regularly from the university presses--a surprising number of them winning the historical profession's top prizes. Yet, as even an unsystematic survey shows, popular presentations of labor history (especially high-quality ones) are much more difficult to find.

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