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August 1987

A Century of Struggle

Alice Kessler-Harris, Melvyn Dubofsky, William H. Harris, Norman Hill, Ray Denison, Daniel Nelson, Dennis Chamot, Cynthia B. Costello, Harley Shaiken, David Brody, Carol Keegan, Roy Rosenzweig, John A. Grimes

To mark the 100th anniversary of the formation of the American Federation of Labor, the National Museum of American History of the Smithsonian Institution invited a group of scholars and practitioners "to examine the work, technology, and culture of industrial America."

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