Labor Histories

Class, Politics, and the Working-Class Experience

By: Eric Arnesen (Editor), Julie Greene (Editor), Bruce Laurie (Editor)

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Paperback | 16 March 1998

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Is class outmoded as a basis for understanding labor history? This significant new collection emphatically says ''No!'' Touching on such subjects as migrant labor, religion, ethnicity, agricultural history, and gender, these thirteen essays by former students of David Montgomery--a preeminent leader in labor circles as well as in academia--demonstrate the sheer diversity of the field today. ''The best anthology of labor's past to be published in many years. . . . First-class scholarship--and a worthy tribute to David Montgomery, master artisan of the trade.'' -- Michael Kazin, author of Barons of Labor: The San Francisco Building Trades and Union Power in the Progressive Era ''David Montgomery has been the most important labor historian of our times. . . . In this superb collection, thirteen of his students repay their mentor with a set of sparkling essays that not only demonstrates the vast range of his influence but addresses the new political, cultural, and racial issues that define the axis upon which the study of labor history in the United States now turns.'' -- Nelson Lichtenstein, author of Walter Reuther: The Most Dangerous Man in Detroit

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"The books well-written, well-researched 13 essays demonstrate that class and political involvement were crucial to the study of working people and to American history itself." -- George Green, Journal of the West "Provides an excellent introduction to the Montgomery-inspired scholarship that has so influenced the field of labor history over the past generation. All of these essays exhibit the extensive archival scholarship and the sympathy with victims of exploitation, racial oppression, and gender discrimination that are the hallmarks of Montgomery's writings and those of his students." -- Robert H. Zieger, Labor History "David Montgomery has been the most important labor historian of our times, not only as a scholar but as a teacher and tribune whose defense of the democratic project stands at the center of his life and work. In this superb collection, thirteen of his students repay their mentor with sparkling essays that not only demonstrate the vast range of his influence but address the new political, cultural, and racial issues that define the axis upon which the study of labor history in the United States now turns." -- Nelson Lichtenstein, author of Walter Ruether: The Most Dangerous Man in Detroit

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Preface
Introduction	p. 1
Politics and the State
Land and Freedom: The New York Anti-Rent Wars and the Construction of Free Labor in the Antebellum North	p. 19
The "Fair Field" of the "Middle Ground": Abolitionism, Labor Reform, and the Making of an Antislavery Bloc in Antebellum Massachusetts	p. 45
Dinner-Pail Politics: Employers, Workers, and Partisan Culture in the Progressive Era	p. 71
Class Wars: Frank Walsh, the Reformers, and the Crisis of Progressivism	p. 97
The Workers' State: Municipal Policy, Class, and Taxes in the Early Depression	p. 125
Class and Culture
"Work That Body": African-American Women, Work, and Leisure in Atlanta and the New South	p. 153
Mobilizing Community: Migrant Workers and the Politics of Labor Mobility in the North American West, 1900-1920	p. 175
Popular Narrative and Working-Class Identity: Alexander Irvine's Early Twentieth-Century Literary Adventures	p. 201
Making a Church Home: African-American Migrants, Religion, and Working-Class Activism	p. 230
Labor Activism and Workers' Organizations
"To Sit among Men": Skill, Gender, and Craft Unionism in the Early American Federation of Labor	p. 259
Charting an Independent Course: African-American Railroad Workers in the World War I Era	p. 284
Boring from Within and Without: William Z. Foster, the Trade Union Educational League, and American Communism in the 1920s	p. 309
The Dynamics of "Americanization": The Croatian Fraternal Union between the Wars, 1920s-30s	p. 340
Contributors	p. 363
Index	p. 367
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