Samuel Gompers: A Biography

Table of contents

• Title Page iii
• CONTENTS vii
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xi
• SAMUEL GOMPERS: LABOR STATESMAN OR LABOR FAKER? xiii
• Part I - THE EVOLUTION OF A TRADE UNIONIST 1850-1886 1
• Chapter One - YOUTH 3
• Chapter Two - THE CIGARMAKERS' UNION 20
• Chapter Three - FEDERATION 43
• Part II - FOUNDATIONS OF THE AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR 1886-1892 59
• Chapter Four - GOMPERS AND THE KNIGHTS OF LABOR 61
• Chapter Five - THE CESSPOOL OF CORRUPTION 81
• Chapter Six - BUILDING THE A.F. OF L. 88
• Chapter Seven - EIGHT HOURS AND THE WORLD LABOR MOVEMENT 107
• Part III - STRUGGLE AND COMPROMISE 1892-1897 119
• Chapter Eight - FIGHTING HARD TIMES 121
• Chapter Nine - THE TRUSTS 137
• Chapter Ten - LABOR POLITICS AND UNION POLITICS 149
• Part IV - THE MIDDLE AGES 1897-1906 163
• Chapter Eleven - THE LOBBYIST 165
• Chapter Twelve - IMPERIALISM AND WAR 199
• Chapter Thirteen - LABOR UNDER FIRE 215
• Chapter Fourteen - "A COMMUNITY OF INTERESTS" 233
• Part V - PRE-WAR YEARS 1906-1914 261
• Chapter Fifteen - "THE WORLD WOULD BE A NARROW CAGE" 263
• Chapter Sixteen - "REWARD YOUR FRIENDS" 284
• Chapter Seventeen - LABOR STRUGGLES AND VIOLENCE 302
• Chapter Eighteen - GOMPERS, THE SOCIALISTS, AND INTERNATIONAL LABOR 323
• Part VI - THE WAR 1914-1919 347
• Chapter Nineteen - NEUTRALITY AND INTERVENTION 349
• Chapter Twenty - IN THE SERVICE OF HIS COUNTRY 364
• Chapter Twenty-One - STIFFENING EUROPE'S BACKBONE 398
• Chapter Twenty-Two - VERSAILLES 418
• Part VII - LAST YEARS 1919-1924 429
• Chapter Twenty-Three - RIGHT, LEFT, AND CENTER 431
• Chapter Twenty-Four - INTERNATIONALISM 447
• Chapter Twenty-Five - THE YEAR OF THE SCARE 464
• Chapter Twenty-Six - YEARS OF REACTION 486
• Chapter Twenty-Seven - RED, WHITE, AND BLACK 505
• Chapter Twenty-Eight - LAST DAYS 517
• NOTES 531
• INDEX 562

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