Doing history from the bottom up : on E.P. Thompson, Howard Zinn, and rebuilding the labor movement from below / Staughton Lynd.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lynd, Staughton, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Communism.

Historians--United States--Biography.

Historians.

Socialism.

United States--Historiography.

United States.

Great Britain--Historiography.

Great Britain.

Working class--United States--Historiography.

Working class.

Working class--Great Britain--Historiography.

Lynd, Staughton--Philosophy.

Lynd, Staughton.

Thompson, E. P. (Edward Palmer), 1924-1993.

Thompson, E. P.

Zinn, Howard, 1922-2010.

Zinn, Howard.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (202 p.)

Place of Publication:

Chicago, Illinois : Haymarket Books, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

<div>Staughton Lynd challenges academics to see American history through eyes of the poor and working class participants in history.</div>

Contents:

Foreword: Staughton Lynd and "Doing History"; Preface and Acknowledgments; Credits; Part I: Mentors and Exemplars; Introduction; E. P. Thompson: In Memoriam; Edward Thompson's Warrens; Howard Zinn; Part II: Rebuilding the Labor Movement from Below; Introduction; Guerrilla History in Gary; "Your Dog Don't Bark No More"; The Possibility of Radicalism in the Early 1930s: The Case of Steel; Local 1330 v. U.S. Steel (1977-1980); "We Are All We've Got": Building a Retiree Movement in Youngstown, Ohio; Solidarity Unionism; "We Are All Leaders": The Alternative Unionism of the Early 1930s; Afterword

NotesIndex; About the Author

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed December 14, 2014).

ISBN:

1-60846-453-9