Ben Waber reviewed There Is Power in a Union by Philip Dray
A Union-Centric History
4 stars
The focus here is very much on the people and events that defined white organized labor in American history, and Dray does an impressive job covering those topics from a qualitative analytical perspective. Missing are quantitative data and macro economic data to back up his points, and in the topic of labor more generally slavery, Jim Crow, and Latin American labor is barely mentioned. With those significant oversights in mind however, you'd be hard pressed to find a single volume that so thoroughly covers the rest of the US labor experience. Highly recommend
The focus here is very much on the people and events that defined white organized labor in American history, and Dray does an impressive job covering those topics from a qualitative analytical perspective. Missing are quantitative data and macro economic data to back up his points, and in the topic of labor more generally slavery, Jim Crow, and Latin American labor is barely mentioned. With those significant oversights in mind however, you'd be hard pressed to find a single volume that so thoroughly covers the rest of the US labor experience. Highly recommend