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Labor histories : class, politics, and the working class experience
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Labor histories : class, politics, and the working class experience

Author: Eric Arnesen; Julie Greene; Bruce Laurie
Publisher: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, ©1998.
Series: Working class in American history.
Edition/Format:   Book : Conference publication : State or province government publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Genre/Form: Congresses
Material Type: Conference publication, Government publication, State or province government publication
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Eric Arnesen; Julie Greene; Bruce Laurie
ISBN: 0252024079 9780252024078 025206710X 9780252067105
OCLC Number: 38010590
Description: xiii, 382 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: 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.
Series Title: Working class in American history.
Responsibility: edited by Eric Arnesen, Julie Greene, and Bruce Laurie.

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