Written in the run-up to, and for discussion in, the founding convention of the Industrial Workers of the World in 1905 by early Wobbly theorist and founding member Justus Ebert. Ebert was then in the Socialist Labor Party, but would quit to join the main I.W.W. in 1908.

Trades Unionism in the United States 1742-1905: Bulwark of Capitalism or Framework of Socialism? An Historical Glimpse by Justus Ebert. New York Labor News Company, 1905.

Contents: Foreword, The Beginning, Primitive Class Consciousness, Early Political Action, Modern Socialism Foreshadowed, Progress Achieved Conditions Combated, The Civil War and Trade Unionism, The Epoch-Making Knights of Labor, The K.of L. Working Class Eight Hour Day, The A.F. of L. Its Advent and Principles, The Causes of A.F. of L. Retrogression, The Intensification of Labor, The National Civic Federation, The Odious Capital-Labor Combines, A.F. of L.’s True Character and Growth, Labor Humiliated The Light is Breaking, The Socialist Trade and Labor Alliance, The Capture the Seat of Capitalist Power, What the S.T.L.A. Promises, S.T.L.A. Principles, The American Labor Union, The Chicago Conference. Appendix: Marx on Trade Unions, Industrial unionism, The Labor Leader, Mission of the Trade Union. 40 pages.

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