Rethinking U.S. Labor History Essays on the Working-Class Experience, 1756-2009

ISBN-13: 9781441145758 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 352 str.

Donna T Haverty-Stacke

Opis

Provides a reassessment of the growth and the various directions in US labor history. This title focuses on: 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, the transnational turn.

Spis treści

Contributors 1. Introduction Donna Haverty-Stacke and Daniel J. Walkowitz. PART I. CURRENT RESEARCH 2. Memoirs of an Invalid: James Miller and the Making of the British-American Empire during the Seven Years' War Peter Way 3. Losing the Middle Ground: Strikebreakers and Labor Protest on the Southwestern Railroads Theresa Case 4. Rethinking Working-Class Politics in Comparative-Transnational Contexts Shelton Stromquist 5. No Common Creed: White Working-Class Protestantisms and the CIO's Operation Dixie Ken Fones-Wolf and Elizabeth Fones-Wolf 6. A. Philip Randolph, Black Anticommunism, and the Race Question Eric Arnesen 7. The Contextualization of a Moment in CIO History: The Mine-Mill Battle in the Connecticut Brass Valley During World War II Steve Rosswurm 8. Organizing the Carework Economy: When the Private Becomes Public Eileen Boris and Jennifer Klein 9. Solvents of Solidarity: Political Economy, Collective Action, and the Crisis of Organized Labor, 1968-2005 Joseph McCartin PART II. NEW DIRECTIONS IN U.S. LABOR HISTORY 10. Sensing Labor: The Stinking Working-Class after the Cultural Turn Dan Bender 11. Re-imagining Labor: Gender and New Directions in Labor and Working Class History Liz Faue 12. The Limits of Work And The Subject of Labor History Zach Schwartz-Weinstein PART III. RESOURCES Chronology Resources Further Reading Index