{"product_id":"labor-histories-class-politics-and-the-workingclass-experience-9780252067105","title":"Labor Histories  Class Politics and the","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The best anthology of labor's past to be published in many years.\"--Michael Kazin, author of \u003ci\u003eBarons of Labor: The San Francisco Building Trades and Union Power in the Progressive Era\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"David Montgomery has been the most important labor historian of our times. . . . In this superb collection, thirteen of his students repay their mentor with a set of sparkling essays that not only demonstrates the vast range of his influence but addresses the new political, cultural, and racial issues that define the axis upon which the study of labor history in the United States now turns.\"--Nelson Lichtenstein, author of \u003ci\u003eWalter Reuther: The Most Dangerous Man in Detroit\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface xi\u003cbr\u003e Introduction 1 \u003ci\u003eJulie Greene, Bruce Laurie, and Eric Arnesen\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part 1: Politics and the State\u003cbr\u003e 1. Land and Freedom: The New York Anti-Rent Wars and the Construction of Free Labor in the Antebellum North 19 \u003ci\u003eReeve Huston\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 2. The \"Fair Field\" of the \"Middle Ground\": Abolitionism, Labor Reform, and the Making of an Antislavery Bloc in Antebellum Masschusetts 45 \u003ci\u003eBruce Laurie\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 3. Dinner-Pail Politics: Employers, Workers, and Partisan Culture in the Progressive Era 71 \u003ci\u003eJulie Greene\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 4. Class Wars: Frank Walsh, the Reformers, and the Crisis of Progressivism 97 \u003ci\u003eShelton Stromquist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 5. The Workers' State: Municipal Policy, Class, and Taxes in the Early Depression 125 \u003ci\u003eCecelia F. Bucki\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part 2: Class and Culture\u003cbr\u003e 6. \"Work That Body\": African-American Women, Work, and Leisure in Atlanta and the New South 153 \u003ci\u003eTera W. Hunter\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 7. Mobilizing Community: Migrant Workers and the Politics of Labor Mobility in the North American West, 1900-1920 175 \u003ci\u003eGunther Peck\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 8. Popular Narrative and Working-Class Identity: Alexander Irvine's Early Twentieth-Century Literary Adventures 201 \u003ci\u003eKathryn J. Oberdeck\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 9. Making a Church Home: African-American Migrants, Religion, and Working-Class Activism 230 \u003ci\u003eKimberley L. Phillips\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part 3: Labor Activism and Workers' Organizations\u003cbr\u003e 10. \"To Sit among Men\": Skill, Gender, and raft Unionism in the Early American Federation of Labor 259 \u003ci\u003eIleen A. DeVault\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 11. Charting an Independent Course: African-American Railroad Workers in the World War 1 Era 284 \u003ci\u003eEric Arnesen\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 12. Boring from Within and Without: William Z. Foster, the Trade Union Educational League, and American Communism in the 1920s 209 \u003ci\u003eJames R. Barrett\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 13. The Dynamics of \"Americanization\": The Croatian Fraternal Union between the Wars, 1920s-30s 340\u003ci\u003e Peter Rachleff\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Contributors 363\u003cbr\u003e Index 367","brand":"MO - University of Illinois Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51455972442455,"sku":"9780252067105","price":27.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780252067105.jpg?v=1755033262","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/labor-histories-class-politics-and-the-workingclass-experience-9780252067105","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}