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The human tradition in American labor history / edited by Eric Arnesen.
Lippincott Library HD8073.A1 H86 2004
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- Format:
- Book
- 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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