The Labor History Reader (The Working Class in American History) - Softcover

The Labor History Reader. The Working Class in American History.

Paperback. Zustand: Gut. XX, 470 p. Binding with slight signs of handling, book edge minimally soiled, inside clean and without markings. - Contents Foreword Preface Sidney Fine Richard B. Morris Introduction David Brody and Herbert G. Gutman 1. The Old Labor History and the New: In Search of the American Working Class David Brody 2. The Study of Social Mobility: Ideological Assumptions and Conceptual Bias James A. Henretta 3. The Failure of Female Factory Labor in Colonial Boston Gary B. Nash 4. The Mechanics and the Jeffersonians: New York, 1789-1801 Alfred Young 5. Should Labor Have Supported Jackson?; Or Questions the Quantitative Studies Do Not Answer Edward Pessen 6. Workers' Control of Machine Production in the Nineteenth Century David Montgomery 7. Trouble on the Railroads in 1873-1874: Prelude to the 1877 Crisis? Herbert G. Gutman 8. Adolph Strasser and the Origins of Pure and Simple Trade Unionism H. M. Gitelman 9. Trade Unionism in the British and U.S. Steel Industries, 1888-1914: A Comparative Study James Holt 10. Black Workers and Labor Unions in Birmingham, Alabama, 1897-1904 Paul B. Worthman 11. The Origins of Western Working-Class Radicalism, 1890-1905 Melvyn Dubofsky 12. The Passaic Strike of 1912 and the Two I.W.W.s Michael H. Ebner 13. Organizing the Unorganizable: Three Jewish Women and Their Union Alice Kessler-Harris 14. Affluence for Whom? - Another Look at Prosperity and the Working Classes in the 1920s Frank Stricker 15. "United We Eat": The Creation and Organization of the Unemployed Councils in 1930 Daniel J. Leab 16. Origins of the Sit-Down Era: Worker Militancy and Innovation in the Rubber Industry, 1934-1938 Daniel Nelson 17. Frank Murphy, the Thornhill Decision, and Picketing as Free Speech Sidney Fine 18. Delivering the Goods: Industrial Unionism during World War II Joshua Freeman 19. Women Workers and the UAW in the Post-World War II Period: 1945-1954 Nancy Gabin 20. Work and Community Life in a Southern Textile Town Afterthoughts Dale Newman Notes on Contributors. ISBN 9780252011986 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 742. Artikel-Nr. 1242771

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