scholarly journals The Labor Force in the United States, 1890-1960

Population ◽  
1949 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 379 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. D. ◽  
John D. Durand
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Labor Force ◽  
The United States

Effects of Population Change on the Size and Characteristics of the Labor Force of the United States

2015 ◽  
pp. 43-62
Author(s):  
Steve H. Murdock ◽  
Michael E. Cline ◽  
Mary Zey ◽  
Deborah Perez ◽  
P. Wilner Jeanty
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Labor Force ◽  
Population Change ◽  
The United States

Global Master Workman

2021 ◽  
pp. 129-150
Author(s):  
Steven Parfitt
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Civil War ◽  
Labor Force ◽  
Labor Movement ◽  
The United States ◽  
Labor Leader ◽  
Irish Immigrants ◽  
National Border ◽  
American Labor Movement ◽  
American Labor

This chapter analyzes the story of a transnational figure who hardly ever crossed a national border in his career as labor leader. Terence Powderly (1849-1924) was born in Carbondale, Pennsylvania, in 1849, to Irish immigrants. He entered the labor force as a switchman for the Delaware and Hudson railroad at the age of 13, as the Civil War raged across the United States, and became a machinists’ apprentice at the age of 17. He was marked out very early as a rising star in the American labor movement, rising quickly in the Machinist and Blacksmith’s Union after joining it in 1871. In 1874, a year after the Panic of ’73 brought economic depression to the United States and forced Powderly west to find work, he joined a relatively new, secret union that he would be associated with for the rest of his life: The Noble and Holy Order of the Knights of Labor.

The China Factor

2020 ◽  
pp. 142-163
Author(s):  
Robert I. Rotberg
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Economic Growth ◽  
Labor Force ◽  
Human Security ◽  
The United States ◽  
First Century ◽  
Human Welfare ◽  
Primary Products ◽  
Nation States ◽  
Twenty First Century

Solving Africa’s central concerns of the mid-twenty-first century—how to grow economically as its population surges and how to create more and more jobs for its burgeoning labor force—relies on China. Likewise, enabling Africa to improve its human security and human welfare in most of its component nations depends on China. Third, strengthening Africa’s infrastructural architecture depends mostly on China. Without steady domestic Chinese economic growth and the behemoth’s consequent continued need for primary resources derived from Africa, however, prospects for many of the latter continent’s nation-states are, at best, problematic. Chinese demand drives African prosperity, raises world prices for primary products, and has made it possible for a number of the polities of Africa to accumulate wealth, to uplift their peoples, and to begin to play larger roles on the world’s stage. In this decade, and later, Africa and China are bound together synergistically in ways that cannot readily be replaced by trade, aid, or attention from the United States, India, Russia, Brazil, or Europe.

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