Woods, Sylvia, 227
Woodward, Charlotte, 67
woodworkers, 203
work stoppages. See strikes
workday, 61–62, 65–66, 68, 69, 71, 99, 102, 111, 143
eight-hour campaigns, 125–27, 128, 164
“52–40 or Fight” campaign, 231, 232
forty-hour week, 193
ten-hour campaigns, 65
Worker’s Alliance of America, 196
Workers Ex-Serviceman’s League, 191
Workers’ Party of America (Communist Party USA), 167, 184
Workers Union of South Africa, 289
Working Men’s Party, 51, 61, 65, 72
Working Men’s Protective Union, 64
Workingmen’s Benevolent Association (WBA), 105
workplace safety, 143, 176–77, 181, 268
Works Progress Administration (WPA), 200–201, 217
World Bank, 234, 282, 309, 329
World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU), 233, 237
World (New York newspaper), 100, 108, 110, 120
World Trade Organization (WTO), 328
World War I, 160–65, 224
anti-immigrant laws, 169
antiwar activities, 162–63
unions and, 161–62, 163
World War II, 219, 221–31
antiwar positions, 219, 221, 222–23
labor movement and, 219, 221, 222–23, 227–31
post-war, 221, 230, 231–32, 233–37
war-related production, 221, 224, 229
Wounded Knee, 1973 siege, 256
Wounded Knee, massacre at, 114
Wright, Carroll, 140
Wyoming, 114, 119
Yablonski, Jock, 274
Yale University, 301, 316
Yamasee War (1711–15), 6
Yellow Brotherhood, 257, 258
“yellow dog contracts,” 177, 188
Young Lords Party (YLP), 254, 257, 258–59
Young People’s Socialist League, 151
Youngstown Sheet and Tube, 214, 222, 285
youth groups, Socialist, 151
Zaire, 309
Zeh, Magadalena, 21
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