Union, Labor
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...improving their economic status and working conditions through collective...e.g., the United Automobile, Aerospace...organizations. In Great Britain Although there were...Britain and in the United States, mainly because...instrument of the state in its drive for...production. In the United States Early Years...unions in the late 18th and early 19th cent...have also placed greater emphasis on organizing...American Worker, 1865 1920 (1996...al., ed., A Century of Organized Labor...