The American labor leader Samuel Gompers (1850-1924) was the most significant single figure in the history of the American labor movement. He founded and was the first president of the American Federation of Labor. Few great social movements have been...

Samuel Gompers is best remembered as a trade-labor organizer, statesman, loyal friend of the working class, and fierce advocate for workers' rights and protections. Perhaps because he came of age in the era of the U.S. Civil War, Gompers developed a...

Irwin Yellowitz is a professor of history at The City College of the City University of New York. 'I want to live for one thing alone-to leave a better labor movement in America and in the world than I found it when...

Samuel Gompers was a (and, for much of the time, the) major moderate figure in the American labour movement for nearly four decades from the late 1880s. This volume deals with the mid-1890s when Gompers, like the Lib-Lab old guard in the TUC...

Jennie Rivera works 10-hour days taking care of children in her lower Manhattan apartment and has never had a paid vacation or earned more than $13,000 a year.Rivera hopes that will change now that she's cast her lot, along with thousands of other child-care providers...