Download or read book Labor & The Left written by John H. M. Laslett and published by New York : Basic Books. This book was released on 1970-06-21 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Study of the historical influences of the socialist political party on the labour movement and on selected trade unions in the USA, from 1881 to 1924 - concludes that radicalism in American labour had more to do with domestic political and economic developments than with the immigrant character of the union membership or the ideologycal commitments of the leadership, and includes a bibliography of unpublished sources. References.