Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Introduction -- People and Jobs -- 1. The Pluralistic Economy of the United States -- 2. Whatever Happened to Ma, Pa, and the Kids? -- 3. Career Women and Urban Revival -- 4. The Job Problem -- II. Education and Work: Critical Links -- 5. Minorities and the...

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part One -- I. Merchants and Knaves -- II. Farmers and Gentlemen -- III. The Laboring Poor -- IV. Big But Bad Business -- V. The Costs of Evil -- VI. The Learned and the Pious -- VII. A Better World for All -- Part Two -- VIII. False Prophets...

Discusses the factors that affect the tenure of office of U.S. labor leaders. Development of formal organization; Distinction between political and business unionism; Dominant role of president. (Abstract copyright EBSCO.)