Author: Jeff Stilley

Jeff Stilley is an instructor in the Department of Sociology at Virginia Tech University. Many thanks to Julie Greene and Robert Ovetz for providing expert feedback on an earlier draft. The manuscript benefited from editing by Amy Splitt.

Frank P. Walsh (1864–1939), a progressive defense lawyer from Kansas City and political ally of Woodrow Wilson, almost single handedly created a worker-friendly labor control system during World War I. Throughout the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, U.S. politics were