A valuable look at the workers’ movement in the immediate pre-War era by Helen Marot. Helen Marot (1865-1940) was a journalist from a Philadelphia Quaker background who began the city’s Fabian library in the early 1890s. Comrades of Florence Kelley, she became involved in the labor movement. In 1906, she established the Women’s Trade Union League in New York and would lead the massive shirtwaist makers and dressmakers International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union strike in 1909. She left the the leadership of the union for a prolific career as a labor writer, and served as an editor of The Masses. A lesbian, her partner was Caroline Pratt, the famous reform educator.

American Labor Unions by Helen Marot. Henry Holt and Company Publishers, New York. 1914.

Contents: Preface, Philanthropy and Labor Unions, American Federation of Labor, The Railroad Brotherhoods, Industrial Workers of the World, Organization of Women, Industrial and Trade Organization, Sympathetic Strike Action, Union Recognition and the Union Shop, The Union Label, The Boycott , Arbitration, Legislation and the Unions, The Conflict between Labor and the Courts, Violence, Strikes and Violence, Sabotage, Limitation of Output, Scientific Management, Labor in Politics, Direct Action, Appendix : Directory of A.F. of L. National and International Unions, I.W.W. Distribution of Unions by States and Territories, Reference Notes of Citations, Index. 304 pages.

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