{"product_id":"workingclass-america-essays-on-labor-community-and-american-society-9780252009549","title":"WorkingClass America  Essays on Labor Community","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This book represents the pick of a growing crop. The authors are . . . inspired by the belief in the capacity of ordinary people to overrule the directors of the corporation and the state.\"--Michael Kazin, \u003ci\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"These essays represent the highest state of the art. . . . They are mandatory reading for scholars and students alike.\"--Bruce Laurie, \u003ci\u003eIndustrial and Labor Relations Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction \u003ci\u003eMichael H. Frisch and Daniel J. Walkowitz\u003c\/i\u003e ix\u003cbr\u003e The Social System of Early New England Textile Mills: A Case Study, 1812-40 \u003ci\u003eJonathan Prude\u003c\/i\u003e 1\u003cbr\u003e Artisan Republican Festivals and the Rise of Class Conflict in New York City, 1788-1837 \u003ci\u003eSean Wilentz\u003c\/i\u003e 37\u003cbr\u003e The Origins of the Sweatshop: Women and Early Industrialization in New York City \u003ci\u003eChristine Stansell \u003c\/i\u003e78\u003cbr\u003e The Uses of Political Power: Toward a Theory of the Labor Movement in the Era of the Knights of Labor \u003ci\u003eLeon Fink \u003c\/i\u003e104\u003cbr\u003e The Triumph of Commerce: Class Culture and Mass Culture in Pittsburgh \u003ci\u003eFrancis G. Couvares\u003c\/i\u003e 123\u003cbr\u003e Trade-Union Evangelism: Religion and the AFL in the Labor Forward Movement, 1912-16 \u003ci\u003eElizabeth and Kenneth Fones-Wolf \u003c\/i\u003e153\u003cbr\u003e \"The Customers Ain't God\": The Work Culture of Department-Store Saleswomen, 1890-1940 \u003ci\u003eSusan Porter Benson\u003c\/i\u003e 185\u003cbr\u003e Dress Rehearsal for the New Deal: Shop-Floor Insurgents, Political Elites, and Industrial Democracy in the Amalgamated Clothing Workers \u003ci\u003eSteve Fraser\u003c\/i\u003e 212\u003cbr\u003e Catholics, Communists, and Republicans: Irish Workers and the Organization of the Transport Workers Union\u003ci\u003e Joshua B. Freeman 256\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Conflict over Workers' Control: The Automobile Industry in World War II \u003ci\u003eNelson Lichtenstein\u003c\/i\u003e 284\u003cbr\u003e Notes on Contributors 312","brand":"University of Illinois Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400415191383,"sku":"9780252009549","price":20.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780252009549.jpg?v=1730470626","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/workingclass-america-essays-on-labor-community-and-american-society-9780252009549","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}