The American Labor Movement in Fizzland: The Free Trade Union Committee and the CIA

Labor History ◽  
1998 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony Carew
Keyword(s):  
Free Trade ◽  
Trade Union ◽  
Labor Movement ◽  
Union Committee ◽  
American Labor Movement ◽  
American Labor

Religion and Trade Union Politics in the United States, 1880–1920

1988 ◽  
Vol 34 ◽  
pp. 39-55
Author(s):  
Ken Fones-Wolf
Keyword(s):  
Progressive Era ◽  
Labor Unions ◽  
Trade Union ◽  
Labor Movement ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
The United States ◽  
Union Leaders ◽  
The Church ◽  
American Labor Movement ◽  
American Labor

More than three decades have passed since Marc Karson analyzed the Catholic church's critical role in impeding the growth of socialism in the American labor movement. He was not the first to make the argument; Progressive Era socialists were acutely aware of Catholics' outspoken opposition, and David Saposs outlined Karson's arguments as early as 1933. However, the evidence marshaled by Karson, first in a 1951 article and later inAmerican Labor Unions and Politics, 1900–1918, so clearly detailed facets of Catholic antisocialism that his thesis has become the conventional wisdom. With few exceptions, historians depict the church as a potent enemy of socialism, heartily welcomed by trade union leaders.

Gompers and Business Unionism, 1873–90

1954 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 264-275 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernard Mandel
Keyword(s):  
Trade Union ◽  
Labor Movement ◽  
Trade Unions ◽  
Centralized Control ◽  
International Union ◽  
Internal Organization ◽  
History Of ◽  
Survival And Growth ◽  
American Labor Movement ◽  
American Labor

The development of the administration of business firms has been studied by many scholars in the last 25 years. By comparison, the history of the administration of trade unions is an untouched field; most historians of the American labor movement have dealt only summarily with administrative changes. But efficient internal organization was crucial, in the years after 1873, to trade union survival and growth. Under the prodding of Samuel Gompers, the Cigarmakers' International Union pioneered several improvements. Its major innovations were: centralized control, especially of strikes; benefit payments for sickness, unemployment, and death; high dues and high initiation fees.

Friedrich A. sorge on the American labor movement

Labor History ◽  
1977 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 592-606
Author(s):  
Miriam Frank ◽  
Martin Glaberman
Keyword(s):  
Labor Movement ◽  
American Labor Movement ◽  
American Labor
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