Tramps and Trade Union Travelers - Internal Migration and Organized Labor in Gilded Age America, 18701900

A thought-provoking analysis of how internal migration in Gilded Age America undermined collective organizing and workers' political power.

About the author

Kim Moody was a founder of Labor Notes and author of several books on the U.S. labor movement, including On New Terrain: How Capitalism is Reshaping the Battleground of Class War (Haymarket Books, 2017), In Solidarity: Essays on Working-Class Organization in the United States (Haymarket Books, 2014) and U.S. Labor in Trouble and Transition (Verso, 2007). He has a PhD from the University of Nottingham.

Summary

A thought-provoking analysis of how internal migration in Gilded Age America undermined collective organizing and workers’ political power.

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Additional text

“Kim Moody is one of the leading intellectuals of the labor movement.”

—Robin D.G. Kelley, author of Race Rebels: Culture, Politics and the Black Working Class

Praise for On New Terrain:

 "Moody's "new terrain" is not a world, as most would have it, where globalization has left U.S. workers helpless. It shows how corporations' inevitable push for profits actually opens up new vulnerabilities—if only unions can get their act together. He explodes myths about the gig economy and the potential to transform the Democratic Party. Readers will put the book down convinced that there is a way for workers to win."

-Jane Slaughter, LaborNotes

Product details

• Authors: Kim Moody
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.05.2020
• EAN: 9781608467587
• ISBN: 978-1-60846-758-7
• No. of pages: 330
• Dimensions: 139 mm x 215 mm x 19 mm
• Weight: 572 g
• Illustrations: No
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; USA, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Radicalism, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Labor & Industrial Relations, c 1800 to c 1900, Trade Unions, Migration, immigration & emigration, Social and cultural history, United States of America, USA, Migration, immigration and emigration, History of the Americas, c 1877 to c 1893 (‘The Gilded Age’ in the USA)