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In 1947, there appeared the first volume of what would become Foner's magnum opus, A History of the Labor Movement of the United States, released by International Publishers, a publisher very close to the Communist Party USA.

Writing as a Marxist, Foner emphasized the role of the working class and their allies in a class struggle dating back to the earliest days of the American republic, thereby presenting what one historian has called " a formidible challenge to the orthodox John R. Commons interpretation of labor history.

" Further volumes would appear in the series throughout Foner's life, with a tenth and final installment, published shortly before the historian's death, taking the story to the eve of the Great Depression.