Our Own Time retells the story of American labor by focusing on the politics of time and the movements for a shorter working day. It argues that the length of t

“A wonderfully readable account of Chicago’s early history” and the inspiration behind PBS’s American Experience (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times).

This is the first paperback edition of a moving appraisal of the infamous Haymarket bombing (May 1886) and the trial that followed it--a trial that was a cause

Looks at the history of the depiction of anti-authoritarian social movements in art.