BREAD AND ROSES
The American Labor Movement, 1880-1940By Frank Joseph Donnelly
Length6h 26m
About this audiobook
**The weekend. The eight-hour day. The end of child labor. A safe workplace and a living wage.** You use them every single day — but do you know who bled to win them?
Most history books bury the answer under dry dates and statistics. You're left with a vague sense that "things got better," never understanding the strikes, the sacrifice, and the ordinary men and women who forced America to change. And in an age when workers' rights are under threat again, that gap in your knowledge isn't just frustrating — it leaves you powerless to understand the fight happening right now.
**BREAD AND ROSES: The American Labor Movement, 1880–1940** closes that gap. This is the gripping, fast-moving story of how the American labor movement transformed a nation — told not as a textbook, but as a human drama of courage, blood, and triumph.
From the locked factory doors of the Triangle Shirtwaist fire to the sit-down strikes that brought General Motors to its knees, you'll witness the labor movement that built the modern middle class.
**Inside, you will discover:**
* **WHY** the eight-hour day and the weekend exist — and who died to win them
* **HOW** the American labor movement defeated the most powerful corporations on Earth
* **WHO** the real heroes were — Gompers, Mother Jones, Eugene Debs, and the unnamed thousands
* **WHAT** the great strikes — Homestead, Pullman, Lawrence, Flint — teach us about power today
* **WHERE** today's fight for workers' dignity began, and where it's heading next
This isn't passive history. It's the key to understanding the struggle still shaping your paycheck, your hours, and your rights.
To understand America, you must understand the American labor movement.
**Scroll up and click "Buy Now" to claim your copy of BREAD AND ROSES today.**
Audiobook details
GenrePoetry, Literary Classics, Historical Fiction
Length6 hrs 26 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
20Chapter 13: Section 7(a) and the Wagner Act — Labor's Magna Carta
2Author’s Note
21Chapter 14: The CIO — John L. Lewis and Industrial Unionism
3Prologue: The Workers' Century
22Chapter 15: The Sit-Down Strikes — Flint, General Motors, and the Auto Workers
4PART ONE: THE GILDED AGE WORKER (1880-1900)
23Chapter 16: Steel and the Little Steel Strike — Violence, Courage, and Partial Victory
5Chapter 1: The Factory System — Industrialization and the American Worker
24PART FIVE: LABOR'S PEOPLE
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6Chapter 2: The Knights of Labor — America's First Mass Labor Organization
25Chapter 17: Samuel Gompers — The Father of American Labor
7Chapter 3: The Homestead Strike — Carnegie, Frick, and the Death of Craft Unionism
26Chapter 18: Mother Jones — The Most Dangerous Woman in America
8Chapter 4: The Pullman Strike — Debs, Cleveland, and the Limits of Labor Power
27Chapter 19: Eugene V. Debs — Socialism, Labor, and the American Dream
9PART TWO: THE PROGRESSIVE ERA LABOR MOVEMENT (1900-1917)
28Chapter 20: Women and Labor — From the Mills to the Unions
10Chapter 5: The AFL — Samuel Gompers and Business Unionism
29PART SIX: LEGACIES
11Chapter 6: The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire — Safety, Women Workers, and Reform
30Chapter 21: What Unions Won — Wages, Hours, and the American Standard of Living
12Chapter 7: The IWW — Wobblies, Industrial Unionism, and Radical Labor
31Chapter 22: Taft-Hartley and the Limits — Labor's Postwar Constraints
13Chapter 8: The Lawrence Textile Strike — Bread and Roses, 1912
32Chapter 23: The Long Decline — Union Membership from Peak to Present
14PART THREE: SUPPRESSION AND SURVIVAL (1917-1929)
33Chapter 24: Labor's Legacy — The Eight-Hour Day and the Middle-Class Economy
15Chapter 9: The Red Scare of 1919 — Palmer Raids and the Attack on Labor
34Epilogue: What the Unions Built
16Chapter 10: The Open Shop Movement — Business's Counterattack
35Acknowledgments
17Chapter 11: The Coal Wars — Miners, Operators, and the Appalachian Struggle
36Selected Bibliography
18Chapter 12: The Twenties in the Workplace — The Open Shop Decade
37About the Author
19PART FOUR: THE NEW DEAL LABOR MOVEMENT (1933-1940)
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