Lexicon of Labor: More Than 500 Key Terms, Biographical Sketches, and Historical Insights Concerning Labor in America | 
 enlarge | Author: R. Emmett Murray
Publisher: New Press
Category: Book
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Media: Paperback
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Pages: 207
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Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 5.4 x 0.6
ISBN: 1565844564
Dewey Decimal Number: 331.097303
EAN: 9781565844568
ASIN: 1565844564
Publication Date: November 1998
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An innovative and informative mini-encyclopedia of work and workers in America. Unique and comprehensive, The Lexicon of Labor features informative and engaging descriptions of more than 500 key places, people, and events in American labor history. From Eugene Debs to Cesar Chavez, the Haymarket Riots in 1886 to the Teamsters/ups strike in 1997, labor writer R. Emmett Murray provides brief, fascinating sketches of this vital part of the American experience. The Lexicon of Labor also includes explanations of major legislative acts, definitions of key legal terminology, and complete listings of all the member unions of the AFL-CIO and independent unions in the United States. A practical, handy resource for students and journalists, and an ideal introduction to the history of labor in America. Terms include: AFL-CIO; boulwarism; collective bargaining; Davis-Bacon Act; downsizing; Fair Labor Standards Act; Homestead Strike; I.W.W.; Knights of Labor; maquiladora; May Day; Palmer Raids; scab; sweatshop; Taft-Hartley Act; union bug; wildcatting; wobblies; zipper clause; and many more.
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Couldn't live without it for my labor studies degree March 29, 2007
I used this book so much that I wore it out! I had to get it re-binded. I needed this book for just about every course I took in Labor
Studies. It is a great reference book to have.
Must have for labor studies February 25, 2007
I first purchased this book two years ago. I have used it in every labor studies class that I have taken and I wouldn't dream of not using it. The definitions are precise and clear. I feel so strongly about this book that I recently purchased another copy for my Local Union President. This book is a must have.
Excellent Reference Book! January 5, 2001
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This book has a lot of history and definitions included. Awsome book. Every worker should know the struggle labor has indured.
 A Masterwork of workers under masters August 1, 2000
For 12 bucks, no one could find a more rich, and most important, more concise compendium of the American labor movement and American labor at work. Murray et. al. have done a service to everyone with this thoughtful, experienced addition to the record of American toilers.
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