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The human tradition in American labor history / edited by Eric Arnesen.

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Arnesen, Eric.
Series:
Human tradition in America ; no. 19.
The human tradition in America ; no. 19
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Labor leaders--United States--Biography.
Labor leaders.
United States.
Social reformers--United States--Biography.
Social reformers.
Labor--United States--History.
Labor.
History.
United States--Biography.
Genre:
Biographies.
Physical Description:
xvi, 258 pages ; 23 cm.
Place of Publication:
Wilmington, Del. : SR Books, 2004.
Summary:
The Human Tradition in American Labor History is a comprehensive exploration of the American working class from the colonial period to the present. In marked contrast to most academic treatments of American labor, this book presents history through
Contents:
Mary Hale and Ann Edmonds : gender, women's work, and health in colonial Massachusetts / Rebecca J. Tannenbaum
Gabriel's conspiracy: the lives of enslaved artisans in Richmond, Virginia / James Sidbury
Sarah Bagley : laboring for life / Terry Murphy
Beeswax Taylor : the forgotten legacy of labor insurgency in gilded age America / Paul Krause
William R. Riley and the limits of interracial unionism in the late nineteenth-century South / Karin A. Shapiro
Eugene V. Debs : from conservative unionist to American socialist / Colin J. Davis
Pauline Newman : immigration, Jewish radicalism, and gender / Annelise Orleck
Karl Yoneda : radical organizing and Asian American labor / Chris Friday
James Evans : religion, and working-class protest in the new South / Bryant Simon
A. Philip Randolph : labor and the new Black politics / Eric Arnesen
Vernon Lawhorn, Thomas James Buchner, and the Green brothers : reverse migration in World War II / Risa L. Goluboff
Dolores Huerta : the United Farm Workers Union / Margaret Rose
Walter Reuther : the promise of modern America / Kevin Boyle.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
0842029869
0842029877
OCLC:
52134758

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