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Labor Histories : Class, Politics, and the Working-Class Experience

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Arnesen, Eric
Otros Autores: Phillips, Kimberley L., Oberdeck, Kathryn J., Peck, Gunther, Hunter, Tera W., Bucki, Cecelia, Stromquist, Shelton, Huston, Reeve, Laurie, Bruce, Greene, Julie
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Champaign : University of Illinois Press, 1998.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Cover
  • Halftitle
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Politics and the State
  • Class and Culture
  • Institution Building and Labor Activism
  • Part 1: Politics and the State
  • 1. Land and Freedom: The New York Anti-Rent Wars and the Construction of Free Labor in the Antebellum North
  • 2. The "Fair Field" of the "Middle Ground": Abolitionism, Labor Reform, and the Making of an Antislavery Bloc in Antebellum Massachusetts
  • 3. Dinner-Pail Politics: Employers, Workers, and Partisan Culture in the Progressive Era
  • America's Open Shop Drive
  • Open Shop Politics and Congressional Lobbying
  • Electoral Politics and the NAM
  • The Results of the Employers' Campaign
  • Conclusion
  • 4. Class Wars: Frank Walsh, the Reformers, and the Crisis of Progressivism
  • Social Reform and Class Conflict
  • Investigating the "Causes of Industrial Unrest"
  • Progressives Divided
  • Rockefeller and the "Charity Trust"
  • Progressives and the Class Divide
  • Final Reports
  • 5. The Workers' State: Municipal Policy, Class, and Taxes in the Early Depression
  • Part 2: Class and Culture
  • 6. "Work That Body": African-American Women, Work, and Leisure in Atlanta and the New South
  • 7. Mobilizing Community: Migrant Workers and the Politics of Labor Mobility in the North American West, 1900-1920
  • 8. Popular Narrative and Working-Class Identity: Alexander Irvine's Early Twentieth-Century Literary Adventures
  • Jack London as Model: The Socialist Bildungsroman and the Evolutionary Vernacular
  • "My Life in Peonage"and From the Bottom Up: Alexander Irvine Makes a Working-Class Self
  • The Magyar and My Lady of the Chimney Corner: Ethnic Community and the Meaning of Class
  • 9. Making a Church Home: African-American Migrants, Religion, and Working-Class Activism
  • Part 3: Labor Activism and Workers' Organizations
  • 10. "To Sit among Men": Skill, Gender, and Craft Unionism in the Early American Federation of Labor
  • 11. Charting an Independent Course: African-American Railroad Workers in the World War I Era
  • 12. Boring from Within and Without: William Z. Foster, the Trade Union Educational League, and American Communism in the 1920s
  • From Syndicalism to Communism
  • The Chicago Movement, the Labor Party, and the Amalgamation Campaign
  • Rank-and-File Rebellions
  • Repression
  • Factionalism: The TUEL and the Party
  • The Split with the Labor Progressives
  • Minneapolis and Moscow
  • "Trade Union Communists" and "City College Boys"
  • "The Disease of Dual Unionism"
  • 13. The Dynamics of "Americanization": The Croatian Fraternal Union between the Wars, 1920s-30s
  • Contributors
  • Index