USA History: Trade Unions

 

Trade Union Activists
Bill Bailey	Dennis Kearney
Alexander Berkman	Florence Kelley
Sophonisba Breckinridge	Mary Kenney
Harry Bridges	John L. Lewis
James Cannon	Louis Lingg
Ralph Chaplin	Frank Little
Joe Dallet	Helen Marot
Dorothy Day	Mary McDowell
Eugene V. Debs	George Meany
Daniel DeLeon	John Mitchell
Eugene Dennis	Tom Mooney
Farrell Dobbs	Oscar Neebe
David Doran	Steve Nelson
George Engel	Agnes Nestor
Joseph Ettor	Mary Kenney O'Sullivan
Wesley Everest	Leonora O'Reilly
Samuel Fielden	Albert Parsons
Adolph Fisher	Lucy Parsons
Elizabeth Flynn	Terence Powderly
William Z. Foster	Philip Randolph
Mabel Gillespie	Walter Reuther
Arturo Giovannitti	Kate Richards O'Hare
Emma Goldman	Margaret Robins
Samuel Gompers	Max Shachtman
William Green	Rosie Scheiderman
Margaret Haley	Michael Schwab
Bill Haywood	John Siney
Joe Haaglund Hill	Uriah Stephens
Sidney Hillman	Alzina Stevens
Morris Hillquit	Carlo Tresca
James Hoffa	Ben Williams
Mary 'Mother' Jones	William B. Wilson

 

Build it Now

The Labor Movement

 

Trade Union Organizations
American Federation of Labor	Industrial Workers of the World
Congress for Industrial Organisations	United Mine Workers
Knights of Labor	Workingman's Party

 

Trade Union Journals
Industrial Worker	Solidarity
The Daily Worker	The Catholic Worker
The Unemployed	Appeal to Reason
The Masses	The Liberator

 

 

Child Labor: An American History

Trade Unions at the Crossroads

 

Events & Issues
Haymarket Bombing	Pullman Strike
Molly Maguires	Anarchism and Strikes
Child Labour	Trade Unions
Lawrence Textile Strike	Paterson Silk Strike
Anti-Trust Legislation	Fair Employment Act (1942)
Fair Labor Standards Act (1938)	Taft-Hartley Act

 

Women & Trade Unions

Ramparts of Resistance