| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 88.1

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Book Review

The Unfinished Struggle: Turning Points in American Labor, 1877–Present. By Steve Babson. (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 1999. xviii, 205 pp. Cloth, $22.95, ISBN 0-8476-8828-3. Paper, $12.95, ISBN 0-8476-8829-1.)

Steve Babson set a formidable task for himself: in fewer than two hundred pages, to write a history of the American labor movement covering the last 120 years of United States history, from the 1877 rail upsurge to the defeats, new strategies, and many challenges facing the labor movement as it enters the twenty-first century. 1

Perhaps in response to the new interest in the labor movement sparked by the newly revived AFL-CIO (American Federation of Labor–Congress of Industrial Organizations) under John Sweeney's leadership since 1995, others have recently trod the same ground or been even more ambitious, attempting briefly to cover two hundred years of United States labor history. Their works include Shifting Fortunes: The Rise and Decline of American Labor, from the 1820s to the Present (1997, 192 pages), by Daniel Nelson; Working for Democracy: American Workers from the Revolution to the Present (1985, 148 pages), edited by Paul Buhle and Alan Dawley; and A Short History of the U.S. Working Class: From Colonial Times to the Twenty-first Century (1999, 133 pages), by Paul Le Blanc. Much longer at 365 pages, Jeremy Brecher's Strike! (1972, but updated and revised in 1997) is exemplary. . . .

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