A number of parties have gone by differing versions of the name "Workers Party". The American Workers Party is most well known for its leadership in the 1934 Toledo Auto-lite Strike. In December 1934 the American Workers Party led by A.J. Muste merged with the the TrotskyistCommunist League of America forming the Workers Party of the United States. Many members of that organization, in turn, joined the Socialist Party of America in 1936. The Socialist Party soon expelled the former Workers Party members, along with others recruited to their Trotskyist politics and formed the Socialist Workers Party (United States). Abraham Johannes Muste (January 8, 1885_February 11, 1967) was a socialist active in the labor movement and the US civil rights movement. ... Trotskyism is the theory of Marxism as advocated by Leon Trotsky. ... The Communist League of America (Left Opposition) was founded by James P. Cannon, Max Shachtman and Martin Abern in 1928 after their expulsion from the Communist Party USA for Trotskyism. ... Election poster for Eugene V. Debs, Socialist Party of America candidate for President, 1904 The Socialist Party of America was a socialist political party in the United States, the historic American member party of the Socialist International. ... Trotskyism is the theory of Marxism as advocated by Leon Trotsky. ... The Socialist Workers Party is a communist political party in the United States. ...
Americanworkers' standard of living was much higher than that in most European countries.
Despite the early timing of American industrialization, the United States was one of the last countries to develop a permanent native born male factory work force.
American society appeared to be divided along the supposedly "natural lines of age, gender, and ethnicity rather than class.