Growth of Labor Organization in the United States, 1897–1914

George E. Barnett

The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1916, vol. 30, issue 4, 780-795

Abstract: I. Lack of adequate statistics of trade-union membership in the United States; American Federation of Labor reports, 779. — New York Department of Labor, 780. — II. Plan of present compilation, 781. — Defects in the tables, 782. — III. Movement of membership from 1897 to 1914, 784. — IV. Increase of membership compared with increase in number of gainfully occupied, 789. — Compared with increase of wage-earners, 790. — V. Increase of membership by groups, 792.

Date: 1916
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