The third in the Labor Year Book series. An invaluable resource of biographies, directories, facts, and figures of the U.S. labor and socialist movements, as well as a look at international labor, labor law, strikes and lockouts, living conditions, organizations, press, prosecutions, congresses, government, and workers education among much else. This volume was the first since the end of the First World War and details both the strike wave and persecutions that followed, the split in the Socialist Party, and the founding of the Comintern, and the Communist and Communist Labor Parties. The Department of Labor Research began in 1913, with the yearbooks first published in 1916 and edited by Alexander Trachtenberg. Trachtenberg would leave in 1920, but the Year Books would continue to be published, and be a resources of importance, throughout the 1930s. A must have for all students of the U.S. left and labor movements.

The American Labor Year Book 1919-20, edited by Alexander Trachtenberg. The Department of Labor Research, Rand School of Social Science. New York, 1920

Contents: Preface by Alexander Trachtenberg, PART ONE: Labor in the War, Labor in the British Government, Woman Labor in France During the War, Statistics of Woman Labor in England, Working Women of America During the War, The Collapse of War-Time Collectivism, Food Control during War, War Labor Policies Board, The National War Labor Board, The National War Labor Board and the Labor Movement, The U.S. Shipbuilding Labor Adjustment Board, Railway Labor and Government Control, Labor and the U.S. Fuel Administration, United States Employment Service, Labor Laws and Standards in War-Time, Pacifists in America During the War, Conscientious Objectors in America, Academic Freedom, War-Time Restrictions on the Freedom of Speech, Press and Assemblage, The Chicago Socialist Trial, The I.W.W. Trial, The Trial of Eugene V. Debs, The Case of Kate Richards O’Hare, The Masses Trial, The Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman Trial, The Silent Defense at Sacramento, The Prosecution of Scott Nearing and the American Socialist Society, The Prosecution of the Rand School of Social Science, Deportations Pursuant to Immigration Laws, War Statistics, Physical Fitness in the United States, Universal Military Training, American “Patriotic” Societies, Report of the Commission on International Labor Legislation at the Peace Conference, Berne Socialist Conference Labor Charter, A.F. of L. Reconstruction Program, PART TWO: The Labor Movement in the United States, The American Federation of Labor, The 1919 A.F. of L. Convention, The National Women’s Trade Union League, Strikes and Lockouts in the United States 1917-1918, The Strike of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, The New York Harbor Strike, The Seattle General Strike, The Lawrence Textile Strike, The Cleveland Cloakmakers’ Strike, The Mooney Case, Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, American Federation of Teachers, The Library Employees’ Union, Organization of Office Workers, Brotherhood of Metal Workers, Industrial Workers of the World, Eleventh Annual Convention of the Industrial Workers of the World, The American Labor Party, The United Labor Education Committee, The Educational Work of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, Boston Trade Union College, The Rand School of Social Science, Labor Directory, PART THREE: Labor and the Law, Labor Legislation of 1917 and 1918, Federal Child Labor Legislation, Standards of Workmen’s Compensation in the United States, Workmen’s Compensation in the United States, Progress toward Health Insurance Legislation, Old Age Pensions, The Minimum Wage, Court Decisions Affecting Labor in 1917, PART FOUR: Social and Economic Conditions, Cost of Living, Cost of Food, Profits of the Meat Packers, Profiteering and High Salaries, Wealth and Income in the United States, Income and Infant Mortality, Individual Incomes in the United States, Public Ownership of Railroads, The Railway Workers’ Plan for the Public Ownership of Railroads, The National Nonpartisan League, Progress of Woman Suffrage, The National Woman’s Party and the Federal Suffrage Amendment, Progress of Prohibition in the United States, Record of the U. S. Employment Service during 1918, Employment Statistics, Lynchings in 1917 and 1918, Partial Social Service Directory, PART FIVE: The International Socialist, Labor and Cooperative Movement, The Berne International Socialist Conference, The Luzerne International Socialist Conference, The Moscow International Communist Conference ,The Manifesto of the Moscow International Communist Conference, The Pan-American Labor Conference, The Pan-American Socialist and Labor Congress, Latin American Labor Notes, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada (The Winnipeg Strike), Czechoslovakia, China, Denmark, Finland, French Socialism During the War, Germany, Great Britain, The Guild Socialist Movement in Great Britain, Workshop organization and Works Committees in Great Britain, Greece, Holland, Hungary, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Rumania, Russia, The Russian Soviet Bureau in the United States, Serbia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Guild Socialism, Notes on the Co-operative Movement at Home and Abroad, The First American Co-operative Convention, PART SIX: The Socialist Movement in the United States, The American Socialist Party during the War, The Chicago (Emergency) Convention of the Socialist Party, The Communist Labor Party, The Communist Party, The Socialist Labor Party, Meyer London m Congress, Socialists in the New York Assembly, Socialists in the New York Board of Alderman, Socialist Directory, Partial List of Socialist Publications, Appendix: League of Nations Labor Conference, A.F. of L. “Bill of Rights,” The Chicago Convention of the American Labor Party, List of Contributors, Index. 454 pages.

Rand School of Social Science was founded in 1906 by supporters of the Socialist Party of America in New York City. A worker educations school, in addition to classes a publishing house, research institute, as well as camps and retreats were developed. The school came under the Social Democratic Federation after the split in the Socialist Party in 1936 and changed its name to the “Tamiment Institute and Library” with Its collection forming the basis the Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Archives at New York University.

PDF of book: https://archive.org/download/americanlaborye00sciegoog/americanlaborye00sciegoog.pdf