Reddit reviews From the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend: A Short, Illustrated History of Labor in the United States

http://www.amazon.com/From-Folks-Who-Brought-Weekend/dp/1565847768


Read a book. There are citations included! Or just read the citations and check the sources! Neat!

Not true at all. I suggest reading this book.

Before the 1860's and even before the American Revolution, organized labor existed in the United States. In some cases, it was a holdover of the European Guild system that monopolized training in the skilled trades by organization of the masters. However, as the guild system disintegrated under the momentum of American expansion, new independent organizations rose to take its place.

The first labor strike on US soil was in 1619, a fuller, but still notably incomplete list of pre-1860 labor actions can be found here.

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The Fall of the House of Labor by David Montgomery

Noam Chomsky calls this man the greatest labor historian. Here's his book that covers the real start of the labor movement, up until the US government becomes scared of the labor movement, and largely the IWW, and crushes it.

From the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend by Priscilla Murrolo, A. B. Chitty, and Joe Sacco

Another general book on unions in the US.

History of the Labor Movement in the United States: The Industrial Workers of the World by Philip S. Foner

Philip S. Foner has written more than 8 extensive books on the history of labor in the US. Here's his book on the IWW.

The Industrial Workers of the World: Its First 100 Years by Fred Thompson

This one comes from the IWW itself.

Here's chapter 13 of Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States, titled A Socialist Challenge. He concentrates on the beginning of the 20th century as a whole, and the role that socialist organizations like the IWW played. But it's a beautiful introduction to the names and events you may dig more deeply into with the other books. You can read the entire book on that website, and you should if you haven't. It is required reading for any socialist who wants to understand the history of the US.

Finally, here is Labor History Links, the most extensive labor history website ever created. The amount of information and primary documents here is staggering. You can click on the chronological tab at the top, and it will take you to the page with links to pieces of labor history throughout the development of the US. Search for the IWW in your browser or any related terms, and have a blast.

Education matters. Culture matters. If your education teaches you nothing about the stuff to which you refer (if this book isn't central to US history/world history classes), and your culture has a secular "genesis 1:1" that submits that the only thing that's real is the individual, then you get what we've gotten. People can never ever really see the alternatives to those expressed "truths," can never even see that workers, isolated, are easily harmed/destroyed, and that only together (with honest, transparent leadership) can workers move beyond random survival and thrive...

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