Samuel Gompers and Organized Labor in America
ISBN:
9780881337518 (088133751X)
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...