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This history is intended to throw new light on the growth of the labor movement in specific periods and in special areas, and makes necessary a re-evaluation of conclusions reached in all previous writings on the subject. Considerable space is devoted to the growth of the trade unions, but it is not intended to be only a history of trade unionism in the United States. Special attention has been and will continue to be paid to the role of the w...

In 1947, at the time of completing Volume I of the History of the Labor Movement in the United States, Foner reflected on the role of a Marxist historian of labor. Foner summed up the role this way: to present an "historical view which will enlighten our present struggles, will stimulate the foresight of labor's thinkers and leaders, and give to the great mass of our workers the clarity, courage and determination to forge ahead for the attainm...

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A sweeping collection of the most vital and representative writings of the Black Panther party.

The speeches in this collection are examples of the powerful expressions of both famous and lesser-known African Americans in the 18th and 19th centuries on issues including slavery and racial equality, women's rights, education, religion, immigration, socialism and war.

?Foner's study is exceedingly important. Those who teach the history of the American Revolution will find it a fresh and challenging monograph for their students to read, those who study the Revolution will find it a useful reference point from which to begin new research.?-American Historical Review

This is history as it should be written: massive research and thorough documentation producing a story that tells itself. Recommended for academic history, labor, and Latin American studies collections. Choice Foner's book is primarily valuable as a documentary record. It pays meticulous attention to the labour and socialist press of the time...[A] worthy source of information. Latin America Connexions This noted historian writes in his fluid ...

This volume calls up the voices of the antebellum labor movement and abolitionists, enabling the reader to understand more clearly the process that led Northern workers to support Lincoln in waging war against slaveholders.

?An important work of scholarship that provides the scholarly community with the "basic" documents of the several Democratic-Republican societies. Previously this primary source material was to be found only in the special collections of libraries and historical societies....The bibliography is complete and indispensable. By its very nature this is the definitive work, and it must be acquired by all four-year college and university libraries a...

Foner, probably America's most prolific and perceptive writer on Afro-American history, has produced a biting, massive, sometimes even encyclopedic, narrative of black life and culture after 1820. . . . Foner concludes that oppression was [the slaves'] lot but resistance was their legacy. In so doing, he rejects recent arguments that plantation slavery operated as a paternalistic system or that radical abolitionists were visionaries. A book of...

?Covers not only events in America, but also the African heritage, the rise of slavery and the slave trade, slavery and race relations in the Caribbean, and the effect slave revolts there had in America....Foner's study will provide a necessary base for future scholarship.?-Library Journal

?This is the only book-length study of the relationship between black Americans and socialism. Contrary to existing scholarship, which views the relationship as minimal because of the racism of party members, Foner asserts that significant forces in the Socialist party fought racism in the party's ranks... and that socialist ideas and movements exercised an important influence on... black intellectuals and writers.' To support his thesis, Fone...

Our Own Time provides the first full account of the movement to shorten the working day in the United States. Combining the narrative and trade union emphasis of traditional labor history with the focus on culture and the labor process characteristic of contemporary labor history, the book offers an illuminating reinterpretation of the history of the U.S. labor movement from the colonial period onward. The authors argue that the length of the ...

Drawing from a broad range of articles, speeches, pamphlets, sermons, debates, laws, and resolutions, this documentary collection focuses on support for the rights of Japanese and Chinese immigrants and their descendants in the United States. The book traces a 130-year period, culminating with the governmental redress for survivors of the Japanese evacuation and internment of World War II. Illustrating the scope and types of American dissent a...

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A classic, radical history of Black workers' contribution to the American labor movement.