About the Author

Daniel Nelson is emeritus professor of history at the University of Akron and former director of the University of Akron Press. He has authored many books, including Northern Landscapes: The Struggle for Wilderness Alaska and American Rubber Workers & Organized Labor, 1900-1941, as well as several articles and book reviews in national publications such as Journal of American History, Journal of Policy History, Ohio History, and Alaska History.

Reviews

"Managers and Workers became an instant classic when it first appeared twenty years ago. A second edition, incorporating later scholarship and a new chapter on labor organization, guarantees that it will remain preeminent for another twenty years--the first book to read for every student of the history of the American factory system."--David Brody, author of In Labor's Cause

"Managers and Workers is a wide-ranging yet concise introduction to the factory system that transformed America in the early twentieth century. At the center of Nelson's story are relations between factory workers (many of them immigrants) and factory managers. Nelson deftly shows how strains in this relationship gave rise to scientific management, to Progressive reform legislation, and to national unions--the key institutions of American industrial society. . . . Managers and Workers continues to be essential reading for students and scholars of American business, labor, and social history."--Sanford M. Jacoby, University of California-Los Angeles