Labor Histories : Class, Politics, and the Working-Class Experience
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
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Champaign :
University of Illinois Press,
1998.
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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