Working Class Community In Industrial America

Author : John T. Cumbler
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1979-04-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780313206153

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Working-Class Community in Industrial America by John T. Cumbler Pdf

New World Coming: The Sixties and the Shaping of Global Consciousnessis a collection of the most innovative essays from a major international conference of the same name, held at Queen's University from June 13¿, 2007. The collection examines the many ways in which a "global consciousness" was forged during the Sixties. In various sections, essays examine the ways revolution was imagined throughout the Sixties, the implications of the "nation" for various liberation movements, the complex politicization of bodies during this time, and the enduring legacy of the period in terms of lasting political movements and cultural landscapes. Featuring a colour insert of protest poster art, this is the first anthology of its kind to bring scholars from many areas of the world together to discuss and debate the meaning and impact of these vastly transformative years.

Author : Kathleen R. Arnold
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2015-08-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780271048994

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America's New Working Class by Kathleen R. Arnold Pdf

Today’s political controversy over immigration highlights the plight of the working class in this country as perhaps no other issue has recently done. The political status of immigrants exposes the power dynamics of the “new working class,” which includes the former labor aristocracy, women, and people of color. This new working class suffers exploitation in advanced industrial countries as the social cost of capitalism’s success in a neoliberal and globalized political economy. Paradoxically, as borders become more open, they are also increasingly fortified, subjecting many workers to the suspension of law. In this book, Kathleen Arnold analyzes the role of the state’s “prerogative power” in creating and sustaining this condition of severe inequality for the most marginalized sectors of our population in the United States. Drawing on a wide range of theoretical literature from Locke to Marx and Agamben (whose notion of “bare life” features prominently in her construal of this as a “biopolitical” era), she focuses attention especially on the values of asceticism derived from the Protestant work ethic to explain how they function as ideological justification for the exercise of prerogative power by the state. As a counter to this repressive set of values, she develops the notion of “authentic love” borrowed from Simone de Beauvoir as a possible approach for dealing with the complex issues of exploitation in liberal democracy today.

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 : John T. Cumbler
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1979-04-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0313206155

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Working-Class Community in Industrial America by John T. Cumbler Pdf

New World Coming: The Sixties and the Shaping of Global Consciousnessis a collection of the most innovative essays from a major international conference of the same name, held at Queen's University from June 13¿, 2007. The collection examines the many ways in which a "global consciousness" was forged during the Sixties. In various sections, essays examine the ways revolution was imagined throughout the Sixties, the implications of the "nation" for various liberation movements, the complex politicization of bodies during this time, and the enduring legacy of the period in terms of lasting political movements and cultural landscapes. Featuring a colour insert of protest poster art, this is the first anthology of its kind to bring scholars from many areas of the world together to discuss and debate the meaning and impact of these vastly transformative years.

Author : Charles Stephenson,Robert E. Asher,Robert Asher
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 55,7 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 : Herbert George Gutman
Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105011734600

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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 : Brian Greenberg
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1985-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0887060463

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Worker and Community by Brian Greenberg Pdf

Worker and Community focuses on the social and cultural impact of industrialization in Albany, New York during the middle decades of the nineteenth century. More than a local study, it uses Albany as a laboratory in which to examine this important force in social history. The study looks first at the full range of economic actions in which the city's workers participated between 1850 and 1884--organized strikes, labor riots, public demonstrations, and reform movements. It also examines community influences as workers defined themselves in part through affiliation with a particular ethnic group, church, fraternal society, and political party. The worker's struggle against prison contract labor, as discussed in Greenberg's text, reveals acceptance of the free labor tradition along with an emerging interest-group consciousness.

Author : Sherry Lee Linkon
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780472053797

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The Half-Life of Deindustrialization by Sherry Lee Linkon Pdf

Examines how contemporary American working- class literature reveals the long- term effects of deindustrialization on individuals and communities

Author : Maurice F. Neufeld,Daniel J. Leab,Dorothy Swanson
Publisher : R. R. Bowker
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 47,7 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 : Eugene V. Dennett
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1988-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0791400786

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Agitprop: The Life of an American Working-Class Radical by Eugene V. Dennett Pdf

Agitprop is the memoir of a Washington State maritime and steel worker who was a longtime activist in the American Federation of Labor, the Congress of Industrial Organizations, and the Communist Party. Born to a Massachusetts working class socialist family, Dennett is an idealist who sought to unify theoretical principle, policy, and practice in his daily life. His life story embodies broader themes that make this book an allegorical depiction of one man's journey through 20th century working-class America.

Author : Gary Gerstle
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691228235

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Working-Class Americanism by Gary Gerstle Pdf

In this classic interpretation of the 1930s rise of industrial unionism, Gary Gerstle challenges the popular historical notion that American workers' embrace of "Americanism" and other patriotic sentiments in the post-World War I years indicated their fundamental political conservatism. He argues that Americanism was a complex, even contradictory, language of nationalism that lent itself to a wide variety of ideological constructions in the years between World War I and the onset of the Cold War. Using the rich and textured material left behind by New England's most powerful textile union--the Independent Textile Union of Woonsocket, Rhode Island--Gerstle uncovers for the first time a more varied and more radical working-class discourse.

Author : James R. Barrett
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0252061365

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Work and Community in the Jungle by James R. Barrett Pdf

Looks at unionization efforts by Chicago's packinghouse workers and explores the process of class formation in early twentieth-century industrial America.

Author : James S. Roberts
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000008487

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Drink, Temperance and the Working Class in Nineteenth Century Germany by James S. Roberts Pdf

Originally published in 1984 this book provided the first German case study of a prototypical 19th Century social problem, combining a discussion of popular drinking behaviour with analysis of efforts to reform it on the parts of both middle class temperance reformers and the socialist labour movement. The book links the study of popular drinking behaviour and organized responses to it to larger themes in Germany’s social and political development, providing an important window on topics such as working class dietary standards to the political mentality of the Bildungsbügertum.

Author : Ava Baron
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781501711244

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Work Engendered by Ava Baron Pdf

In tobacco fields, auto and radio factories, cigarmakers' tenements, textile mills, print shops, insurance companies, restaurants, and bars, notions of masculinity and femininity have helped shape the development of work and the working class. The fourteen original essays brought together here shed new light on the importance of gender for economic and class analysis and for the study of men as well as women workers. After an introduction by Ava Baron addressing current problems in conceptualizing gender and work, chapters by leading historians consider how gender has colored relations of power and hierarchy—between employers and workers, men and boys, whites and blacks, native-born Americans and immigrants, as well as between men and women—in North America from the 1830s to the 1970s. Individual essays explore a spectrum of topics including union bureaucratization, protective legislation, and consumer organizing. They examine how workers' concerns about gender identity influenced their job choices, the ways in which they thought about and performed their work, and the strategies they adopted toward employers and other workers. Taken together, the essays illuminate the plasticity of gender as men and women contest its meaning and its implications for class relations. Anyone interested in labor history, women's history, and the sociology of work or gender will want to read this pathbreaking book.

Author : Jeffrey A. Charles
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0252020154

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Service Clubs in American Society by Jeffrey A. Charles Pdf

Placing the clubs in the context of twentieth-century middle-class culture, Charles maintains that they represented the response of locally oriented, traditional middle-class men to societal changes. The groups emerged at a time when service was becoming both a middle-class and a business ideal. As voluntary associations, they represented a shift in organizing rationale, from fraternalism to service. The clubs and their ideology of service were welcome as a unifying force at a time when small cities and towns were beset by economic and population pressures.