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Preface

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Introduction

Section 1: Early Trade Unionism

  • Early Unions in Milwaukee, 1850-1884, Thomas W. Gavett
  • Lead Mining in La Fayette County, Daniel M. Parkinson
  • Work on a Farm, 1848, John Muir
  • Lumber Industry Strikes: Eau Claire, Marinette, Ashland, La Crosse, Robert W. Ozanne
  • The Knights of Labor in Milwaukee, Leon Fink
  • Frank Weber: Labor's "General Organizer", Robert W. Ozanne
  • Early Labor Legislation, Gordon M. Haferbecker
  • Unemployment: The "Tramp Problem" in Beloit, Robert C. Nesbit
  • The Bay View Tragedy, Robert C. Nesbit
  • Employer Rights, Robert C. Nesbit
  • The Founding of the Wisconsin State Federation of Labor, 1893, Darryl Holter
  • The Very First Kohler Strike, 1897, Walter H. Uphoff
  • Problems in Workplace Health and Safety, Robert C. Nesbit
  • A Strike for Cash Pay in Two Rivers, 1895, Paul F. Cigler, Jr.
  • Women and the Oshkosh Woodworkers Strikes, 1898, Lee Baxandall
  • Unions in Kenosha, John W. Bailey
  • From Union Town to Open Shop: Beloit 1903-1904, Robert W. Ozanne
  • Labor in Racine, Joseph M. Kelly

Section 2: Unionism in An Industrial Society

  • The Paperworkers; Fight for Saturday Night, Robert W. Ozanne
  • War Hysteria and the Wobblies, John D. Stevens
  • Vocational Education, Paul W. Glad
  • Labor's Daily Newspaper: The Milwaukee Leader, Elmer Axel Beck
  • Labor Spies and Union-Busting, Darryl Holter
  • Organizing the Unorganized in Milwaukee, 1900-1903, Darryl Holter
  • The Law to Limit Injunctions, Gordon M. Haferbecker
  • The Machinists Battle the Injunction, Robert W. Ozanne
  • Organized Labor and Socialism: Two Views, Fredrick I. Olson and Elmer A. Beck
  • A Lock-Out: The Hosiery Workers in Kenosha, 1928-1929, Leon Applebaum
  • The Labor Forward Movement, Thomas W. Gavett
  • Thw Wisconsin School For Workers: Two Views, Barbara Wertheimer and Darina Rasmussen
  • The Wisconsin Labor Code of 1931, Gordon M. Haferbecker
  • Workers' Compensation, Rober W. Ozanne
  • African American Workers and the Labor Movement in Milwaukee, 1870-1930, Joe W. Trotter, Jr.
  • "Fighting Bob" La Follette, Debra E. Bernhardt
  • Why I Unionized My Plant, George W. Mead

Section 3: The Promise of Industrial Unionism

  • Industrial Unions: The Organizers' Views, Charles Heymanns, Victor Cooks, Kenneth Clark, and Carl Griepentrog
  • Building the Union at Ray-O-Vac in Madison, Robert H. Zieger
  • African American Workers and teh Labor Movement in Milwaukee, 1930-1945, Jow W. Trotter, Jr.
  • The Farmer-Labor Progressive Federation, Robert W. Ozanne
  • The Wisconsin Milk Strike of 1933, Roman Piech
  • Sources of CIO Success: The New Deal Years in Milwaukee, Darryl Holter
  • The Wisconsin Plan for Labor Unity, 1936, Elmer A. Beck
  • The Nation's First Unemployment Compensation Law, Irving Bernstein
  • Maud McCreery: Unionist and Suffragist, Milwaukee Leader
  • Unionism at Oscar Mayer in Madison, Robert H. Schultz, Jr.
  • Industrial Unionism: A Communist Perspective, Peggy Dennis
  • Madison Labor in the 1930s, Dexter Arnold
  • The Riot at Kohler, 1934, Walter H. Uphoff
  • Organizing Garment Workers, Rose Pesotta
  • A Radio Talk by Jacob F. Friedrick, Jacob F. Friedrick
  • Gerald Boileau and the Politics of Unemployment, James F. Lorence
  • The United Auto Workers at Nash Motors in Kenosha, John Drew
  • The Founding of AFSCME, American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees
  • Organizing the Unemployed: The Case Strike of 1936, Joseph M. Kelly

Section 4: From World War to Cold War

  • Battery Workers at War, Robert H. Zieger
  • Rosella Wartner: The Making of a Wausau Unionist, Rosella Wartner and Joanne Ricca
  • Organizing Clerical Workers, Alice Holz
  • Women and the War Effort at Allis-Chalmers, Stephen Meyer
  • Nellie Wilson: A Black Woman Meets the Union, Nellie Wilson
  • Labor Law: Wisconsin's "Little Wagner Act" and the Road to Taft-Hartley, Darryl Holter
  • Erik Bjurman: Kenosha Unionist, Elmer A. Beck
  • Cold War Politics at Allis-Chalmers, Stephen Meyer
  • Anatomy of a Strike in Marinette, Bernard Karsh
  • Jacob F. Friedrick in 1954, John D. Pomfret

Section 5: Labor and Contemporary Society

  • Madison Labor in the 1960s and 1970s, Dexter Arnold
  • An Isolated Survivor: Racine Labor, Richard W. Olson
  • John W. Schmitt: A Profile, Harold "Red" Newton
  • Wisconsin: Teaching Assitants Strike Ends in Contract Signing, Andrew Hamilton
  • Catherin Conroy: Unionist and Feminist, Tony Carideo
  • A Female Machinist in Milwaukee, Sue Doro and Karen Matthews
  • Blue-Collar Aristocrats: The View From a Working-Class Tavern, E.E. LeMasters
  • The Hortonville Teachers' Strike of 1974, Wisconsin Educatin Association Council
  • The Union Comes to Wisconsin Physicians Service, Cynthia B. Costello
  • The Formation of the State AFL-CIO Women's Committee, Helen Hensler
  • An Agenda for Working Families, Jack B. Reihl
  • Labor Cartoons: Drawing on Work Culture, Mike Konopacki and Gary Huck
  • New Union Strategies: Electrical Workers in Wausau, Dale Kurschner
  • Labor Meets History, Robert W. Ozanne, Darryl Holter, and David Newby

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