Fall 2024

The decline of unions in the United States has led scholars and labor activists to ask about past forms of collective action by workers other than contractual worksite representation through governmentally certified bargaining agents. During the last two decades historians …

The Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), contends Steven Fraser, “was a quintessentially political creature whose origins and fate were entirely bound up with the rising and receding of the `second New Deal.’” The career of Sidney Hillman provides Fraser, who …