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<p>Editor Paul Le Blanc presents a new edition of this classic study of American labor in the 1880s. Written by Eleanor Marx (perhaps Karl Marx's most talented daughter) and her common-law husband Edward Aveling (who helped translate Marx's Capital into English), the original text is lively, lucid, and insightful. It provides a snapshot of the U.S. labor movement and working class at a time when the United States was becoming the world's leading manufacturing nation.</p> <p>Blending together firsthand observations and interviews with a wealth of appropriate statistics and reports from the Bureau of Labor Statistics in various states, Marx and Aveling vividly depict a representative cross-section of working-class people. They describe conditions in numerous workplaces and sectors of the labor force; the nature of such labor organizations as the Knights of Labor and the American Federation of Labor; a variety of trade unionists, socialists, anarchists, and reformers; even a Marxist analysis of the American cowboy!</p> <p>Three recent essays enhance the original text. The first, by editor Paul Le Blanc, situates this work within the general sweep of U.S. labor history in the nineteent

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Author

Eleanor Marx, Edward Aveling, Paul Leblanc, Eleanor Marx Aveling

Publisher

Humanity Books

Published

2000

Language

EN

ISBN

9781573926263

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Management, History, Finance