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Rethinking U. S. Labor History : Essays on the Working-Class Experience, 1756-2009 by Daniel J. Walkowitz (2010, Trade Paperback)
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PublisherBloomsbury Academic & Professional
ISBN-101441145753
ISBN-139781441145758
eBay Product ID (ePID)102805001
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Number of Pages352 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameRethinking U. S. Labor History : Essays on the Working-Class Experience, 1756-2009
SubjectLabor & Industrial Relations, Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Social History, Labor, United States / General
Publication Year2010
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaPolitical Science, Social Science, Business & Economics, History
AuthorDaniel J. Walkowitz
FormatTrade Paperback
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Item Height0.7 in
Item Weight16.5 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2010-003377
Dewey Edition22
Reviews&"Much the way Walkowitz and Michael Frisch did a quarter century ago with Working-Class America, this superb new volume of essays illustrates the state of the field while setting the agenda for the next generation of U.S. labor history. While attentive to the intersections of class and culture that have animated much recent scholarship, this volume also offers a renewed focus on the structural factors that have impinged on workers' lives. Some of the most interesting essays explore how aspects of working-class culture and consciousness offered resistance to the entreaties of organizers, militants, and strikers, matters historians have too often ignored. Yet others consider the past in light of the new demographics and sectoral dimensions of today's labor force, while emphasizing the power of the state and transnational links to shape working-class lives. Collectively, Walkowitz's and Haverty-Stacke's contributors insist that U.S. labor historians rethink for the politics of a new century the shop-worn definitions of our essential subjects: work and the worker. If "labor" has a future in our neo-liberal era �as a material practice, a form of social organization, and a subject fit for close study �clues to its dynamics will be found in these pages.&" --Alex Lichtenstein, Florida International University, USA, Drawing on new as well as seasoned talents to probe the outer limits of a rapidly evolving field, Rethinking U.S. Labor History will undoubtedly take its place as a valuable marker of the discipline's own history., "Much the way Walkowitz and Michael Frisch did a quarter century ago with Working-Class America, this superb new volume of essays illustrates the state of the field while setting the agenda for the next generation of U.S. labor history. While attentive to the intersections of class and culture that have animated much recent scholarship, this volume also offers a renewed focus on the structural factors that have impinged on workers' lives. Some of the most interesting essays explore how aspects of working-class culture and consciousness offered resistance to the entreaties of organizers, militants, and strikers, matters historians have too often ignored. Yet others consider the past in light of the new demographics and sectoral dimensions of today's labor force, while emphasizing the power of the state and transnational links to shape working-class lives. Collectively, Walkowitz's and Haverty-Stacke's contributors insist that U.S. labor historians rethink for the politics of a new century the shop-worn definitions of our essential subjects: work and the worker. If "labor" has a future in our neo-liberal era "as a material practice, a form of social organization, and a subject fit for close study "clues to its dynamics will be found in these pages." --Alex Lichtenstein, Florida International University, USA, &"Drawing on new as well as seasoned talents to probe the outer limits of a rapidly evolving field, Rethinking U.S. Labor History will undoubtedly take its place as a valuable marker of the discipline's own history.&" --Leon Fink, University of Illinois at Chicago, "Drawing on new as well as seasoned talents to probe the outer limits of a rapidly evolving field, Rethinking U.S. Labor History will undoubtedly take its place as a valuable marker of the discipline's own history." --Leon Fink, University of Illinois at Chicago
Dewey Decimal331.0973
Table Of ContentContributors 1. Introduction Donna Haverty-Stacke and Daniel J. Walkowitz.PART I. CURRENT RESEARCH2. 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 Case4. 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-Wolf6. 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 McCartinPART II. NEW DIRECTIONS IN U.S. LABOR HISTORY10. 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. RESOURCESChronology Resources Further Reading Index
SynopsisLabor History has recently undergone something of a renaissance that has yet to be documented. Rethinking U.S. Labor History chronicles this rejuvenation with contributions from new scholars as well as established names. This unique collection of essays blends the work of senior labor historians with that of young scholars working at the frontiers of what we think will be the field's future. All express a continued interest in questions surrounding the relationship of class and culture, especially the association between the changing experience of class and the broader context of American political culture. Their work also reflects a revived interest in the links between workers' experience and the changing political economy, especially as American workers confront the continued flight of manufacturing jobs and the transformation of the nation's retail sector. Rethinking U.S. Labor History aims to serve as both a practical and substantive contribution to the field of labor history and a comment on its current state and future prospects. The essays demonstrate that the state of labor history today is strong and its possibilities for the future bright. Book jacket., Labor History has recently undergone something of a renaissance that has yet to be documented. The book chronicles this rejuvenation with contributions from new scholars as well as established names. Rethinking U.S. Labor History focuses particularly on those issues of pressing interest for today's labor historians: 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 finally, the transnational turn., Rethinking U.S. Labor History provides a reassessment of the recent growth and new directions in U.S. labor history. >
LC Classification NumberHD8072.5.R48 2010
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