| Acknowledgements | 第1-4页 |
| Abstract | 第4-5页 |
| Chinese Abstract | 第5-8页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第8-10页 |
| Chapter Two Conventional Political Participation—Theoretical Framework and Implications in the United States | 第10-25页 |
| ·The Theoretical Framework of Conventional Political Participation | 第10-16页 |
| ·Conventional and Unconventional Political Participation | 第11-13页 |
| ·Activeness in Conventional Political Participation and Socioeconomic Status | 第13-14页 |
| ·Group Effect in Conventional Political Participation | 第14-16页 |
| ·Possible Conventional Accesses to the U.S. Politics | 第16-25页 |
| ·Through the Government | 第17-21页 |
| ·The Legislative Branch | 第17-18页 |
| ·The Executive Branch | 第18-19页 |
| ·The Judicial Branch | 第19-20页 |
| ·The Federal Government and the State Governments | 第20-21页 |
| ·Through the Parties | 第21-22页 |
| ·Through Interest Groups | 第22-23页 |
| ·Through Elections, Campaigns, and Voting | 第23-25页 |
| Chapter Three The U.S. Labor Organizations After the Civil War | 第25-43页 |
| ·The Importance of Labor Organizations | 第27-29页 |
| ·Workers’Survival Environment During the Post Civil War Period | 第27-28页 |
| ·Objectives and Activities of the U.S. Labor Organizations | 第28-29页 |
| ·Early Labor Organizations in the United States | 第29-33页 |
| ·The National Labor Union and Its Political Activities | 第30-31页 |
| ·The Noble Order of the Knights of Labor and Its Political Activities | 第31-33页 |
| ·The AFL-CIO | 第33-43页 |
| ·The American Federation of Labor (the AFL) | 第33-36页 |
| ·Formation | 第34页 |
| ·“Voluntarism”—Political Restraint | 第34-35页 |
| ·Operational and Political Approaches | 第35-36页 |
| ·The Congress of Industrial Organizations (the CIO) | 第36-39页 |
| ·Formation and Independence | 第37-38页 |
| ·Operational and Political Approaches | 第38-39页 |
| ·The AFL-CIO | 第39-43页 |
| ·Challenges and Hardships | 第40-41页 |
| ·Active Role in Pushing for the Labor’s Benefits | 第41-43页 |
| Chapter Four The U.S. Labor’s Conventional Political Participation Under the Leadership of the U.S. Unions | 第43-58页 |
| ·The Political Environment for the U.S. Labor | 第43-48页 |
| ·The Two Major Parties’Attitude Towards the Labor | 第44-45页 |
| ·Labor Legislation | 第45-47页 |
| ·Governmental Bodies Administering Labor Issues | 第47-48页 |
| ·Working the Elections | 第48-52页 |
| ·Donating Money | 第49页 |
| ·Providing Services | 第49-50页 |
| ·Organizing the Votes | 第50-52页 |
| ·Organizing Union Members | 第50-52页 |
| ·Uniting Ethnic Minorities | 第52页 |
| ·Working the Legislation | 第52-58页 |
| ·Tactics of Lobbying | 第53-56页 |
| ·Equipping Themselves with Expertise | 第53-54页 |
| ·Deploying Persuasion | 第54-55页 |
| ·Building Coalition | 第55-56页 |
| ·Scope of Issues | 第56-58页 |
| Chapter Five Conclusion | 第58-61页 |
| Bibliography | 第61-64页 |
