The Lexicon of Labor: More Than 500 Key Terms, Biographical Sketches, and Historical Insights Concerning Labor in America (Paperback)

The Lexicon of Labor: More Than 500 Key Terms, Biographical Sketches, and Historical Insights Concerning Labor in America By R. Emmett Murray, Elaine Bernard (Introduction by), Thomas Geoghegan (Foreword by) Cover Image

The Lexicon of Labor: More Than 500 Key Terms, Biographical Sketches, and Historical Insights Concerning Labor in America (Paperback)

By R. Emmett Murray, Elaine Bernard (Introduction by), Thomas Geoghegan (Foreword by)

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This long-awaited revised and updated edition of The Lexicon of Labor includes dozens of new terms and developments that will introduce a new generation to the labor lexicon.

From Frederick Douglass to C sar Chavez, from the Haymarket Riots in 1886 to the Change to Win federation formed in 2005, this classic labor lexicon provides concise, sketches of over five hundred key places, people, and events in American labor history.
R. Emmett Murray (1939-2008), a longtime newspaperman, was past president of the Pacific Northwest Newspaper Guild, Local 82. Elaine Bernard is the executive director of the Labor and Worklife Program at the Harvard School of Law. She lives in Somerville, Massachusetts.
Product Details ISBN: 9781595582263
ISBN-10: 1595582266
Publisher: New Press
Publication Date: June 15th, 2010
Pages: 208
Language: English