Samuel Gompers and Organized Labor in America
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780673393456 (0673393453)
Publish date: January 1st 1978
Publisher: Scott Foresman & Co
Pages no: 195
Edition language: English
From the mid-1880s until the early 1920s Samuel Gompers dominated organized labor in America. As the longtime president of the American Federation of Labor (AF of L), he played a major role in creating the first enduring national labor organization, an achievement even more remarkable given the cons...