Biographies: Selected Labor Leaders

Updated August 5, 2020 | Infoplease Staff

Selected Labor Leaders

Abel, I. W., American labor leader
Anderson, Mary, American labor expert
Applegarth, Robert, English trade union leader
Arch, Joseph, English labor leader
Benbow, William, English pamphleteer and publisher
Bondfield, Margaret Grace, British political and trade union leader
Bridges, Harry, American labor leader
Cameron, Andrew Carr, American labor leader
Chavez, Cesar Estrada, American agrarian labor leader
Chavez-Thompson, Linda, American labor leader
Citrine, Walter McLennan Citrine, English trade union leader
Donahue, Thomas R., American labor leader
Dubinsky, David, American labor leader
Fraser, Douglas Andrew, American labor leader
Galarza, Ernesto, Mexican-American labor organizer, historian, professor, activist
Gompers, Samuel, American labor leader
Green, William, American labor leader
Haywood, William Dudley, American labor leader
Hill, Joe, Swedish-American union organizer
Hillman, Sidney, American labor leader
Hoffa, James Riddle, U.S. labor leader
Huerta, Dolores, American labor leader
Jones, Mary Harris (Mother Jones), American labor agitator
Jouhaux, Léon, French Socialist labor leader
Kirkland, Lane, American labor leader
Larkin, James, Irish labor leader
Lewis, John Llewellyn, American labor leader
Macarthur, Mary Reid, British labor organizer
Mann, Tom, British labor leader and socialist
Meany, George, American labor leader
Mitchell, John, American labor leader
Mooney, Thomas J., American labor agitator
Murray, Philip, American labor leader
Petrillo, James Caesar, American labor leader
Powderly, Terence Vincent, American labor leader
Quill, Michael Joseph, American labor leader
Randolph, Asa Philip, U.S. labor leader
Reuther, Walter Philip, American labor leader
Schneiderman, Rose, American labor leader
Smillie, Robert, British labor official
Stern, Andrew L., American labor leader
Sweeney, John Joseph, U.S. labor leader
Tillett, Benjamin, English labor organizer
Wilson, William Bauchop, American labor leader
Woodcock, Leonard Freel, American labor leader
Wright, Carroll Davidson, American statistician
Young, Coleman, labor organizer, major of Detroit