A Century of Struggle, (ABSTRACT), Monthly Labor Review Online, August 1987

A Century of Struggle

Alice Kessler-Harris and others
Professor of history and co-director of the Center for the Study of Work and Leisure at Hofstra University

To mark the 100th anniversary of the formation of the American Federation of Labor, the National Museum of American History of the Smithsonian Institution invited a group of scholars and practitioners "to examine the work, technology, and culture of industrial America."

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