title: Union: Part 1 (Volume 1)
author: Matt Curewitz
description: Matt Curewitz is a pretty great guy. I mean, he hasn't ever reattached a severed limb and doesn't have super powers or anything like that. Well, once he reattached an arm broken off from a G.I. Joe but somehow the admissions officer at Harvard Medical School didn't think that was sufficient cause for acceptance. So, instead of an illustrious career as a medical doctor, he wrote this book. You'd better fucking enjoy it.
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  The Armies of Labor
  
  
    
    
  [I. THE BACKGROUND  
    
  ](The%20Armies%20of%20Labor_split_001.html#filepos1758)[II. FORMATIVE YEARS  
    
  ](The%20Armies%20of%20Labor_split_001.html#filepos23846)[III. TRANSITION YEARS  
    
  ](The%20Armies%20of%20Labor_split_001.html#filepos49324)[IV. AMALGAMATION  
    
  ](The%20Armies%20of%20Labor_split_001.html#filepos77942)[V. FEDERATION  
    
  ](The%20Armies%20of%20Labor_split_002.html#filepos107098)[VI. THE TRADE UNION  
    
  ](The%20Armies%20of%20Labor_split_002.html#filepos137261)[VII. THE RAILWAY
  BROTHERHOODS  
    
  ](The%20Armies%20of%20Labor_split_002.html#filepos162999)[VIII. ISSUES AND
  WARFARE  
    
  ](The%20Armies%20of%20Labor_split_002.html#filepos206880)[IX. THE NEW
  TERRORISM: THE I.W.W.  
    
  ](The%20Armies%20of%20Labor_split_002.html#filepos231885)[X. LABOR AND
  POLITICS
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  # The Armies of Labor
  
  
  ### Samuel P. Orth
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### CHAPTER I. THE BACKGRO