Old Labor and New Immigrants in American Political Development: Union, Party, and State, 1875-1920 9781501742699

Table of contents :
Contents
Preface
Part I. The Political Side of American Trade Unionism: Immigration, Organization, and THE Nationalization of Labor Politics
Part II. The Union-Party Tie
Part III. The AFL and the Rise of the Democratic State
Afterword. Back to the Future
Selected Bibliography
Index

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Old Labor and American

New

Political

Immigrants

Development

in

Old Labor and New Immigrants American

Political

in

Development

Union, Party, and State, 1875-1920

GWENDOLYN MINK

Cornell University Press

ITHACA AND LONDON

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1986 by Cornell University

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published 1986 by Cornell University Press.

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Contents

Preface

9

The Political Side oe American Trade Unionism: Immigration, Organization, and THE Nationalization oe Labor Politics

Part

1.

2.

I.

American Politics, 1875-1920 Old Labor and New Immigrants: The Antagonism Labor

in

15

45

Part IT The Union-Party Tie 3.

Meat

vs.

Rice (and Pasta): Discovering Labor Politics

California, 4.

1875-85

Union, Class, and Party

Part

III.

in

71 in the

System of 1896

The AFL and the

Rise oe the Democratic State

5.

Building a Labor Establishment, 1900-1916

6.

The Decision of 1912: The

AFL

113

and the Democratic Party

161 in

204

the Progressive Era 7.

Forging Ties to the State, 1912-20

236

Afterword. Back to the Future

261

Selected Bibliography

269

Index

295

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