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Is class outmoded as a basis for understanding labor history? This collection emphatically answers, "No!" These thirteen essays delve into subjects like migrant labor, religion, ethnicity, agricultural history, and gender. Written by former students of preeminent labor figure and historian David Montgomery, the works advance the argument that class remains indispensable to the study of working Americans and their place in the broad drama of our shared national history.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Preface xi
Introduction 1
Julie Greene, Bruce Laurie, and Eric Arnesen Part 1: Politics and the State
1. Land and Freedom: The New York Anti-Rent Wars and the Construction of Free Labor in the Antebellum North 19
Reeve Huston 2. The "Fair Field" of the "Middle Ground": Abolitionism, Labor Reform, and the Making of an Antislavery Bloc in Antebellum Masschusetts 45
Bruce Laurie 3. Dinner-Pail Politics: Employers, Workers, and Partisan Culture in the Progressive Era 71
Julie Greene 4. Class Wars: Frank Walsh, the Reformers, and the Crisis of Progressivism 97
Shelton Stromquist 5. The Workers' State: Municipal Policy, Class, and Taxes in the Early Depression 125
Cecelia F. Bucki Part 2: Class and Culture
6. "Work That Body": African-American Women, Work, and Leisure in Atlanta and the New South 153
Tera W. Hunter 7. Mobilizing Community: Migrant Workers and the Politics of Labor Mobility in the North American West, 1900-1920 175
Gunther Peck 8. Popular Narrative and Working-Class Identity: Alexander Irvine's Early Twentieth-Century Literary Adventures 201
Kathryn J. Oberdeck 9. Making a Church Home: African-American Migrants, Religion, and Working-Class Activism 230
Kimberley L. Phillips Part 3: Labor Activism and Workers' Organizations
10. "To Sit among Men": Skill, Gender, and raft Unionism in the Early American Federation of Labor 259
Ileen A. DeVault 11. Charting an Independent Course: African-American Railroad Workers in the World War 1 Era 284
Eric Arnesen 12. Boring from Within and Without: William Z. Foster, the Trade Union Educational League, and American Communism in the 1920s 209
James R. Barrett 13. The Dynamics of "Americanization": The Croatian Fraternal Union between the Wars, 1920s-30s 340
Peter Rachleff Contributors 363
Index 367
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Eric Arnesen is the James R. Hoffa Teamsters Professor of Modern American Labor History and Vice Dean for Faculty and Administration at George Washington University's Columbian College of Arts and Sciences. He is the author of
Waterfront Workers of New Orleans: Race, Class, and Politics, 1863-1923.
Julie Greene is a professor of history at the University of Maryland, College Park and the the author of
The Canal Builders: Making America's Empire at the Panama Canal.
Bruce Laurie is a professor emeritus in the Department of History at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and author of
Rebels in Paradise: Sketches of Northampton Abolitionists.
