The Samuel Gompers Project is pleased to announce publication of Volume 11: The Post War Years, 1918-1921, which documents a pivotal turning point labor history, when the wartime promise of industrial democracy gave way to business as usual in the postwar world.
Spanning a turbulent period of wildcat strikes, racial unrest, and political experimentation, this volume presents the efforts of Gompers and the AFL to defend collective bargaining, protect hard-won wartime gains, and advance labor's role as a partner in economic prosperity and social progress. Highlights include the Seattle General Strike, the 1919 coal and steel strikes, the rise of the "American" open-shop plan, and John L. Lewis's unsuccessful campaign to replace Gompers as AFL president. Documents also illuminate Gompers's participation in the Versailles Peace Conference, his involvement with anti-immigration legislation, the founding of the AFL's Nonpartisan Political Campaign Committee, and the demands of black and women workers in the postwar era.
To learn more about this volume, please visit our website where you can read the introduction:
[url]http://www.history.umd.edu/Gompers/intro11.htm [/url]
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Grace Palladino
Co-director, The Samuel Gompers Papers
University of Maryland College Park
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