1607-1760: A nation is founded on hard work -- 1630-1790: Building a democratic foundation -- 1790-1820: Labor faces an industrial revolution -- 1820-1860: Early efforts at labor organization -- 1820-1865: Working people in the Civil War era -- 1865-1873: Rebuilding after the war -- 1873-1886: The founding of the American Federation of Labor -- 1886-1892: The labor struggle against human exploitation -- 1892-1900: The conflicts at Homestead and Pullman -- 1900-1920: America enters the twentieth century -- 1900-1920: Labor in the World War I era -- 1920-1932: The postwar "prosperity" -- 1932-1938: Industrial unionism and the New Deal -- 1938-1960: Labor in war and peace -- 1960-1970s: Today's problems, and promise.
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