American Labor History.

LABOR movement; SHORT History of the American Labor Movement, A (Book); BEARD, Mary Ritter, 1876-1958; ORGANIZED Labor in American History (Book); CANTON, Frank Tracy; LABOR unions; DEPRESSIONS (Economics)

The article presents information on the two books on the American labor movement. The books are: "A Short History of the American Labor Movement, " by Mary Beard; "Organized Labor in American History, " by Frank Tracy Canton. Mary Beard has relied principally upon the Commons history. She interprets the main events of labor history as being susceptible of statements in two alternating curves- one of trade-union economic action proper, and the other of political action; the trade-union curve rising to it greatest heights in periods of prosperity, and falling in periods of depression.