The History of the American Working Class - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The History of the American Working Class write by Anthony Bimba. This book was released on 1927. The History of the American Working Class available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
A Short History of the U.S. Working Class
A Short History of the U.S. Working Class - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Short History of the U.S. Working Class write by Paul Le Blanc. This book was released on 2017-01-15. A Short History of the U.S. Working Class available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “His aim is to make the history of labor in the U.S. more accessible to students and the general reader. He succeeds” (Booklist). In a blend of economic, social, and political history, Paul Le Blanc shows how important labor issues have been, and continue to be, in the forging of our nation. Within a broad analytical framework, he highlights issues of class, gender, race, and ethnicity, and includes the views of key figures of United States labor. The result is a thought-provoking look at centuries of American history from a perspective that is too often ignored or forgotten. “An excellent overview, enhanced by a valuable glossary.” —Elaine Bernard, director of the Harvard Trade Union Program
A History of American Working-Class Literature
A History of American Working-Class Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A History of American Working-Class Literature write by Nicholas Coles. This book was released on 2017-03-02. A History of American Working-Class Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A History of American Working-Class Literature sheds light not only on the lived experience of class but the enormously varied creativity of working-class people throughout the history of what is now the United States. By charting a chronology of working-class experience, as the conditions of work have changed over time, this volume shows how the practice of organizing, economic competition, place, and time shape opportunity and desire. The subjects range from transportation narratives and slave songs to the literature of deindustrialization and globalization. Among the literary forms discussed are memoir, journalism, film, drama, poetry, speeches, fiction, and song. Essays focus on plantation, prison, factory, and farm, as well as on labor unions, workers' theaters, and innovative publishing ventures. Chapters spotlight the intersections of class with race, gender, and place. The variety, depth, and many provocations of this History are certain to enrich the study and teaching of American literature.
Labor's Mind
Labor's Mind - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Labor's Mind write by Tobias Higbie. This book was released on 2018-12-30. Labor's Mind available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Business leaders, conservative ideologues, and even some radicals of the early twentieth century dismissed working people's intellect as stunted, twisted, or altogether missing. They compared workers toiling in America's sprawling factories to animals, children, and robots. Working people regularly defied these expectations, cultivating the knowledge of experience and embracing a vibrant subculture of self-education and reading. Labor's Mind uses diaries and personal correspondence, labor college records, and a range of print and visual media to recover this social history of the working-class mind. As Higbie shows, networks of working-class learners and their middle-class allies formed nothing less than a shadow labor movement. Dispersed across the industrial landscape, this movement helped bridge conflicts within radical and progressive politics even as it trained workers for the transformative new unionism of the 1930s. Revelatory and sympathetic, Labor's Mind reclaims a forgotten chapter in working-class intellectual life while mapping present-day possibilities for labor, higher education, and digitally enabled self-study.
Subterranean Fire
Subterranean Fire - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Subterranean Fire write by Sharon Smith. This book was released on 2018-07-17. Subterranean Fire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “A concise, well-written history of U.S. working-class struggle and radicalism” from the author of Women and Socialism: Class, Race, and Capital (Solidarity). Smith explores how the connection between the U.S. labor movement and the Democratic Party, with its extensive corporate ties, has repeatedly held back working-class struggles. And she closely examines the role of the labor movement in the 2004 presidential election, tracing the shrinking electoral influence of organized labor and the failure of labor-management cooperation, “business unionism,” and reliance on the Democrats to deliver any real gains. “Sharon Smith brings that history to life once again, blasting through the myths of the working class that Trump-era narratives cling to in order to connect us once again to the possibility of building broad solidarity.” —Sarah Jaffe, author of Work Won’t Love You Back “A veteran worker-intellectual brilliantly addresses the crisis of the labor movement, skewering those who believe that renewal can come from the top down, and encouraging those who are fighting to rebuild it from the bottom up.” —Mike Davis, author of Planet of Slums
