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Labor histories : class, politics, and the working-class experience
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- Creator
- edited by Eric Arnesen, Julie Greene, and Bruce Laurie
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [1998]
- ©1998
- Physical Details
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- xiii, 382 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 0252024079, 9780252054709, 9780252024078, 9780252067105, 0252054709, 025206710X
- OCLC
- on1347026218, on1194438657, ocm38010590
- Included bibliographical references and index.
- Land and freedom : the New York anti-rent wars and the construction of free labor in the antebellum North / Reeve Huston -- The "fair field" of the "middle ground" : abolitionism, labor reform, and the making of an antislavery bloc in antebellum Massachusetts / Bruce Laurie -- Dinner-pail politics : employers, workers, and partisan culture in the progressive era / Julie Greene -- Class wars : Frank Walsh, the reformers, and the crisis of progressivism / Shelton Stromquist -- The workers' state : municipal policy, class, and taxes in the early Depression / Cecelia F. Bucki -- "Work that body" : African-American women, work, and leisure in Atlanta and the New South / Tera W. Hunter -- Mobilizing community : migrant workers and the politics of labor mobility in the North American West, 1900-1920 / Gunther Peck -- Popular narrative and working-class identity : Alexander Irvine's early twentieth-century literary adventures / Kathryn J. Oberdeck -- Making a church home : African-American migrants, religion, and working-class activism / Kimberley L. Phillips -- "To sit among men" : skill, gender, and craft unionism in the early American Federation of Labor / Ileen A. DeVault --Charting an independent course : African-American railroad workers in the World War I era / Eric Arnesen -- Boring from within and without : William Z. Foster, the Trade Union Educational League, and American Communism in the 1920s / James R. Barrett -- The dynamics of "Americanization" : the Croatian Fraternal Union between the wars, 1920s-30s / Peter Rachleff