A Short History Of The U S Working Class

Author : Paul Le Blanc
Publisher : Haymarket Books
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2017-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781608466696

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A Short History of the U.S. Working Class by Paul Le Blanc Pdf

“His aim is to make the history of labor in the U.S. more accessible to students and the general reader. He succeeds” (Booklist). In a blend of economic, social, and political history, Paul Le Blanc shows how important labor issues have been, and continue to be, in the forging of our nation. Within a broad analytical framework, he highlights issues of class, gender, race, and ethnicity, and includes the views of key figures of United States labor. The result is a thought-provoking look at centuries of American history from a perspective that is too often ignored or forgotten. “An excellent overview, enhanced by a valuable glossary.” —Elaine Bernard, director of the Harvard Trade Union Program

Author : Eric Arnesen
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 1734 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780415968263

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Encyclopedia of U.S. Labor and Working-class History by Eric Arnesen Pdf

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Author : Maurice F. Neufeld,Daniel J. Leab,Dorothy Swanson
Publisher : R. R. Bowker
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Reference
ISBN : UOM:39015008278023

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American Working Class History by Maurice F. Neufeld,Daniel J. Leab,Dorothy Swanson Pdf

Author : Anthony Bimba
Publisher : New York, International [1937]
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1936
Category : Labor
ISBN : UOM:39015005041911

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The History of the American Working Class by Anthony Bimba Pdf

Author : Donna T. Haverty-Stacke,Daniel J. Walkowitz
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2010-10-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781441135469

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Rethinking U.S. Labor History by Donna T. Haverty-Stacke,Daniel J. Walkowitz Pdf

Rethinking U.S. Labor History provides a reassessment of the recent growth and new directions in U.S. labor history. Labor History has recently undergone something of a renaissance that has yet to be documented. The book chronicles this rejuvenation with contributions from new scholars as well as established names. Rethinking U.S. Labor History focuses particularly on those issues of pressing interest for today's labor historians: the relationship of class and culture; the link between worker's experience and the changing political economy; the role that gender and race have played in America's labor history; and finally, the transnational turn.

Author : Eileen Boris,Nelson Lichtenstein
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 712 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110947111

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Major Problems in the History of American Workers by Eileen Boris,Nelson Lichtenstein Pdf

Author : Charles Stephenson,Robert E. Asher,Robert Asher
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1986-09-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0887061729

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Life and Labor by Charles Stephenson,Robert E. Asher,Robert Asher Pdf

Life and Labor brings together the most stimulating scholarship in the field of labor history today. Its fifteen essays explore the impact of industrialization and technology on the lives of working people and their responses to the changes in society over the past one-hundred-fifty years. Focusing on the everyday life of working-class Americans, it discusses such topics as production technology, occupational mobility, industrial violence, working women, resistance to exploitation, fraternal organizations, and social and leisure-time activities. The essays are written in a lively manner accessible to an undergraduate audience and also provide insights and a solid background for graduate students and scholars in the field of American labor and social history. The book presents the work of members of the generation of labor and social historians who matured in the 1970s and who are now establishing themselves as leaders in their fields.

Author : Howard Zinn
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 764 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2003-02-04
Category : History
ISBN : 0060528427

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A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn Pdf

Since its original landmark publication in 1980, A People's History of the United States has been chronicling American history from the bottom up, throwing out the official version of history taught in schools -- with its emphasis on great men in high places -- to focus on the street, the home, and the, workplace. Known for its lively, clear prose as well as its scholarly research, A People's History is the only volume to tell America's story from the point of view of -- and in the words of -- America's women, factory workers, African-Americans, Native Americans, the working poor, and immigrant laborers. As historian Howard Zinn shows, many of our country's greatest battles -- the fights for a fair wage, an eight-hour workday, child-labor laws, health and safety standards, universal suffrage, women's rights, racial equality -- were carried out at the grassroots level, against bloody resistance. Covering Christopher Columbus's arrival through President Clinton's first term, A People's History of the United States, which was nominated for the American Book Award in 1981, features insightful analysis of the most important events in our history. Revised, updated, and featuring a new after, word by the author, this special twentieth anniversary edition continues Zinn's important contribution to a complete and balanced understanding of American history.

Author : Michael D. Yates
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781583677124

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Can the Working Class Change the World? by Michael D. Yates Pdf

One of the horrors of the capitalist system is that slave labor, which was central to the formation and growth of capitalism itself, is still fully able to coexist alongside wage labor. But, as Karl Marx points out, it is the fact of being paid for one's work that validates capitalism as a viable socio-economic structure. Beneath this veil of “free commerce” – where workers are paid only for a portion of their workday, and buyers and sellers in the marketplace face each other as “equals” – lies a foundation of immense inequality. Yet workers have always rebelled. They've organized unions, struck, picketed, boycotted, formed political organizations and parties – sometimes they have actually won and improved their lives. But, Marx argued, because capitalism is the apotheosis of class society, it must be the last class society: it must, therefore, be destroyed. And only the working class, said Marx, is capable of creating that change. In his timely and innovative book, Michael D. Yates asks if the working class can, indeed, change the world. Deftly factoring in such contemporary elements as sharp changes in the rise of identity politics and the nature of work, itself, Yates asks if there can, in fact, be a thing called the working class? If so, how might it overcome inherent divisions of gender, race, ethnicity, religion, location – to become a cohesive and radical force for change? Forcefully and without illusions, Yates supports his arguments with relevant, clearly explained data, historical examples, and his own personal experiences. This book is a sophisticated and prescient understanding of the working class, and what all of us might do to change the world.

Author : Katherine Leonard Turner
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9780520277588

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How the Other Half Ate by Katherine Leonard Turner Pdf

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, working-class Americans had eating habits that were distinctly shaped by jobs, families, neighborhoods, and the tools, utilities, and size of their kitchens—along with their cultural heritage. How the Other Half Ate is a deep exploration by historian and lecturer Katherine Turner that delivers an unprecedented and thoroughly researched study of the changing food landscape in American working-class families from industrialization through the 1950s. Relevant to readers across a range of disciplines—history, economics, sociology, urban studies, women’s studies, and food studies—this work fills an important gap in historical literature by illustrating how families experienced food and cooking during the so-called age of abundance. Turner delivers an engaging portrait that shows how America’s working class, in a multitude of ways, has shaped the foods we eat today.

Author : Herbert George Gutman
Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105002430309

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Work, Culture, and Society in Industrializing America by Herbert George Gutman Pdf

"These essays in American working-class and social history, in the words of their author "all share a common theme -- a concern to explain the beliefs and behavior of American working people in the several decades that saw this nation transformed into a powerful industrial capitalist society." The subjects range widely-from the Lowell, Massachusetts, mill girls to the patterns of violence in scattered railroad strikes prior to 1877 to the neglected role black coal miners played in the formative years of the UMW to the difficulties encountered by capitalists in imposing decisions upon workers. In his discussions of each of these, Gutman offers penetrating new interpretations of the significance of class and race, religion and ideology in the American labor movement."--Provided by publisher

Author : Eric Arnesen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1561 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Industrial relations
ISBN : 0415968267

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Encyclopedia of U.S. Labor and Working-class History: O-Z; Index by Eric Arnesen Pdf

Author : Eric Arnesen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 619 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:255304832

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Encyclopedia of U.S. Labor and Working-class History by Eric Arnesen Pdf

Author : Joan C. Williams
Publisher : Harvard Business Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781633693791

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White Working Class by Joan C. Williams Pdf

"I recommend a book by Professor Williams, it is really worth a read, it's called White Working Class." -- Vice President Joe Biden on Pod Save America An Amazon Best Business and Leadership book of 2017 Around the world, populist movements are gaining traction among the white working class. Meanwhile, members of the professional elite—journalists, managers, and establishment politicians--are on the outside looking in, left to argue over the reasons. In White Working Class, Joan C. Williams, described as having "something approaching rock star status" by the New York Times, explains why so much of the elite's analysis of the white working class is misguided, rooted in class cluelessness. Williams explains that many people have conflated "working class" with "poor"--but the working class is, in fact, the elusive, purportedly disappearing middle class. They often resent the poor and the professionals alike. But they don't resent the truly rich, nor are they particularly bothered by income inequality. Their dream is not to join the upper middle class, with its different culture, but to stay true to their own values in their own communities--just with more money. While white working-class motivations are often dismissed as racist or xenophobic, Williams shows that they have their own class consciousness. White Working Class is a blunt, bracing narrative that sketches a nuanced portrait of millions of people who have proven to be a potent political force. For anyone stunned by the rise of populist, nationalist movements, wondering why so many would seemingly vote against their own economic interests, or simply feeling like a stranger in their own country, White Working Class will be a convincing primer on how to connect with a crucial set of workers--and voters.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1118541472

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Working Hard for the American Dream by Anonim Pdf