American labor.(State of the Union: A Century of American Labor)

From: Monthly Labor Review | Date: May 1, 2002| Author: Wald, Michael | Copyright information

State of the Union: A Century of American Labor. By Nelson Lichtenstein. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 2002. 352 pp. $29.95.

What happened to organized labor in the 20th century? At the start of the century, organizing labor was seen as a way to impose discipline on a chaotic situation in the United States. Faced with numerous labor disruptions, some employers were not opposed to an "organized" labor movement that could tame the chaos resulting from disaffec...

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