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The Working Class in American History Series

94 primary works • 94 total works
Committed to publishing the highest quality work in labor history, the Working Class in American History series has been a vanguard of the "new" labor history since its premiere in 1978. Building on a deep foundation of workplace, community, culture, and political studies, the series maintains a commitment to placing the experience and agency of wo…
Worker City, Company Town: Iron and Cotton-Worker Protest in Troy and Cohoes, New York, 1855-84
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3.92 · 12 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 1978 · 6 editions
A study in local history. Troy, New York was a uni…

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    Workers on the Waterfront: Seamen, Longshoremen, and Unionism in the 1930s
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    4.29     · 17 Ratings · 4 Reviews · published 1990 · 2 editions
    With working lives characterized by exploitation a…

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    The Tribe of Black Ulysses: African American Lumber Workers in the Jim Crow South
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    3.68     · 25 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 2005 · 3 editions
    The lumber industry employed more African American…

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    Eugene V. Debs: Citizen and Socialist
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    3.90     · 246 Ratings · 26 Reviews · published 1982 · 5 editions
    Indiana born and raised, Eugene Debs (1855-1926) i…

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    Dishing It Out: Waitresses and Their Unions in the Twentieth Century
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    3.90     · 21 Ratings · 4 Reviews · published 1991 · 6 editions
    Back when SOS or Adam and Eve on a raft were thing…

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    Indispensable Outcasts: Hobo Workers and Community in the American Midwest, 1880-1930
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    3.76     · 21 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 2003 · 3 editions
    Often overlooked in labor history, the hoboes who …

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    Counter Cultures: Saleswomen, Managers, and Customers in American Department Stores, 1890-1940
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    4.05     · 55 Ratings · 7 Reviews · published 1986 · 3 editions
    The luxurious appearance and handsome profits of A…

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    The New Left and Labor in the 1960s
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    3.47     · 19 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 1994 · 2 editions
    It is a powerful the relationship between the 1960…

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    Lives of Their Own: Blacks, Italians, and Poles in Pittsburgh, 1900-1960
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    3.08     · 12 Ratings · 6 Reviews · published 1981 · 6 editions
    Lives of Their Own depicts the strikingly differen…

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    Race, Class, and Power in the Alabama Coalfields, 1908-21
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    3.78     · 18 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2001 · 3 editions
    Brian Kelly's acclaimed look at the fault lines in…

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    James P. Cannon and the Origins of the American Revolutionary Left, 1890-1928
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    4.21     · 19 Ratings · 4 Reviews · published 2007 · 7 editions
    Bryan D. Palmer's award-winning study of James P. …

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    Labor Histories: Class, Politics, and the Working-Class Experience
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    4.00     · 6 Ratings · published 1998 · 6 editions
    Is class outmoded as a basis for understanding lab…

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    Labor Embattled: History, Power, Rights
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    0.00     · published 2005 · 2 editions
    American unions are weaker now than at any time in…

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    All That Glitters: Class, Conflict, and Community in Cripple Creek
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    4.08     · 13 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 1998 · 7 editions
    At the turn of the century, Colorado's Cripple Cre…

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    Working-Class America: Essays on Labor, Community, and American Society
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    0.00     · published 1982 · 2 editions
    At the time of its original publication, Working-C…

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    Wobblies on the Waterfront: Interracial Unionism in Progressive-Era Philadelphia
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    4.27     · 33 Ratings · 5 Reviews · published 2007 · 11 editions
     
    During the 1910s and 1920s, the Philadelphia wate…

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    William Z. Foster and the Tragedy of American Radicalism
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    3.83     · 30 Ratings · 5 Reviews · published 2000 · 6 editions
    In this trenchant work, James Barrett traces the p…

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    Power at Odds: The 1922 National Railroad Shopmen's Strike
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    4.00     · 4 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 1997 · 3 editions
    During the tumultuous era of World War I and the y…

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    Women and American Socialism, 1870-1920
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    3.81     · 16 Ratings · 4 Reviews · published 1981 · 5 editions
    "This splendid book should demonstrate to the stil…

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    Work and Community in the Jungle: Chicago's Packinghouse Workers, 1894-1922
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    3.66     · 35 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 1987 · 7 editions
    Mythologized by Upton Sinclair as hopeless, Chicag…

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    Barons of Labor: The San Francisco Building Trades and Union Power in the Progressive Era
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    4.00     · 10 Ratings · 4 Reviews · published 1987 · 4 editions
    From the depression of the 1890s through World War…

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    Duquesne and the Rise of Steel Unionism
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    0.00     · published 2001 · 2 editions
    Dismissed as a flimsy front for management interes…

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    The Female Economy: The Millinery and Dressmaking Trades, 1860-1930
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    3.78     · 23 Ratings · 6 Reviews · published 1997 · 3 editions
    Hemmed in by "women's work" much less than has bee…

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    Labor's Flaming Youth: Telephone Operators and Worker Militancy, 1878-1923
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    4.00     · 3 Ratings · published 1990 · 2 editions
    LABORS FLAMING Telephone Operators and Worker Mili…

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    Southern Workers and the Search for Community: Spartanburg County, South Carolina
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    3.60     · 5 Ratings · published 2000 · 5 editions
    Spartanburg County, South Carolina, offered an exa…

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    Child Care in Black and White: Working Parents and the History of Orphanages
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    4.00     · 4 Ratings · published 2012 · 5 editions
    This innovative study examines the development of …

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    The Haymarket Conspiracy: Transatlantic Anarchist Networks
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    2.63     · 19 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 2012 · 6 editions
    The Haymarket Transatlantic Anarchist Networks tra…

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    A Renegade Union: Interracial Organizing and Labor Radicalism
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    4.25     · 8 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 2012 · 5 editions
    Dedicated to organizing workers from diverse racia…

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    Banded Together: Economic Democratization in the Brass Valley
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    3.25     · 4 Ratings · published 2011 · 7 editions
    Providing incisive commentary on the historical an…

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    The Labor Question in America: Economic Democracy in the Gilded Age (Working Class in American History
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    3.75     · 12 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 2011 · 1 edition
    In The Labor Question in Economic Democracy in the…

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    The Gospel of the Working Class: Labor's Southern Prophets in New Deal America
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    4.23     · 22 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 2011 · 8 editions
    In this exceptional dual biography and cultural hi…

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    Gleanings of Freedom: Free and Slave Labor along the Mason-Dixon Line, 1790-1860
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    4.00     · 3 Ratings · published 2011 · 7 editions
    Late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century land…

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    NAFTA and Labor in North America
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    3.00     · 1 Ratings · published 2008 · 6 editions
    As companies increasingly look to the global marke…

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    Union-Free America: Workers and Antiunion Culture
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    2.86     · 7 Ratings · published 2008 · 4 editions
    Union-Free Workers and Antiunion Culture confronts…

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    Making Capitalism Safe: Workplace Safety and Health Regulation in America, 1880-1940
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    0.00     · published 2009 · 1 edition
    Workplaces in the United States are safer today th…

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    Spirit of Rebellion: Labor and Religion in the New Cotton South
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    3.43     · 14 Ratings · published 2010 · 4 editions
    Winner of the Herbert G. Gutman Prize from the Lab…

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    Staley: The Fight for a New American Labor Movement
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    4.36     · 11 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2009 · 4 editions
    This on-the-ground labor history chronicles the bi…

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    Upheaval in the Quiet Zone: 1199/SEIU and the Politics of Healthcare Unionism
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    3.94     · 32 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 1989 · 7 editions
    This expanded second edition of Upheaval in the Qu…

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    Sweet Tyranny: Migrant Labor, Industrial Agriculture, and Imperial Politics
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    4.40     · 5 Ratings · published 2009 · 6 editions
    In this innovative grassroots to global study, Kat…

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    On the Ground: Labor Struggle in the American Airline Industry
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    4.50     · 2 Ratings · published 2009 · 3 editions
    On the Ground charts labor relations in the airlin…

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    Red Chicago: American Communism at its Grassroots, 1928-35
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    3.73     · 41 Ratings · 6 Reviews · published 2007 · 4 editions
    Realities of the street-level American Communist e…

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    Good, Reliable, White Men: Railroad Brotherhoods, 1877-1917
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    4.00     · 3 Ratings · published 2009 · 2 editions
    This study provides an account of the independent …

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    Shadow of the Racketeer: Scandal in Organized Labor
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    4.50     · 2 Ratings · published 2009 · 3 editions
    Shadow of the Scandal in Organized Labor tells the…

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    Race against Liberalism: Black Workers and the UAW in Detroit
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    3.80     · 10 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2008 · 3 editions
    Race against Liberalism  examines how black worker…

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    Teachers and Reform: Chicago Public Education, 1929-70
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    3.50     · 6 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2008 · 1 edition
    From the union's formation in 1937 until the 1960s…

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    The Great Strikes of 1877
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    4.00     · 7 Ratings · published 2008 · 5 editions
    A spectacular example of collective violence, the …

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    Corruption and Reform in the Teamsters Union
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    4.67     · 6 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2003 · 4 editions
    Almost since its creation, recurring problems with…

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    Glass Towns: Industry, Labor, and Political Economy in Appalachia, 1890-1930s
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    3.38     · 8 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2006 · 3 editions
    While rich in natural resources, Appalachia remain…

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    Black Workers' Struggle for Equality in Birmingham
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    4.50     · 2 Ratings · published 2004 · 5 editions
    Horace Huntley and David Montgomery curate a colle…

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    Workers and the Wild: Conservation, Consumerism, and Labor in Oregon, 1910-30
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    3.50     · 8 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 2007 · 4 editions
    Focusing on Oregon in the 1910s and 1920s, Lawrenc…

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    A Power Among Them: Bessie Abramowitz Hillman and the Making of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America
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    3.00     · 1 Ratings · published 2008 · 2 editions
    Karen Pastorello’s pathbreaking study is the first…

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    We All Got History: The Memory Books of Amos Webber
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    4.00     · 12 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 1996 · 7 editions
    For six decades, betwen 1854 and 1904, Amos Webber…

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    Bridgeport's Socialist New Deal, 1915-36
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    3.17     · 6 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 2001 · 3 editions
    In November 1933, the Socialist Party of Bridgepor…

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    Radical Unionism in the Midwest, 1900-1950
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    4.20     · 15 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 2006 · 3 editions
    District 8 of the United Electrical, Radio, and Ma…

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    Gendering Labor History
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    3.75     · 16 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 2006 · 5 editions
    This collection represents the thirty-year intelle…

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    Reinventing "The People": The Progressive Movement, the Class Problem, and the Origins of Modern Liberalism
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    3.70     · 20 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2005 · 5 editions
    A comprehensive study of the Progressive movement,…

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    City of Clerks: Office and Sales Workers in Philadelphia, 1870-1920
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    2.50     · 2 Ratings · published 2005 · 3 editions
    Below the middle class managers and professionals …

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    Waterfront Revolts: New York and London Dockworkers, 1946-61
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    0.00     · published 2003 · 1 edition
    During the decade that followed World War II, Amer…

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    Detroit's Cold War: The Origins of Postwar Conservatism
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    4.00     · 9 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2012 · 6 editions
    Detroit's Cold War locates the roots of American c…

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    After the Strike: A Century of Labor Struggle at Pullman
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    5.00     · 2 Ratings · published 2003 · 1 edition
    The 1894 Pullman strike and the rise of the Brothe…

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    Anaconda: Labor, Community, and Culture in Montana's Smelter City
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    3.67     · 6 Ratings · published 2001 · 3 editions
    Laurie Mercier's look at "community unionism" exam…

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    "Rights, Not Roses": Unions and the Rise of Working-Class Feminism, 1945-80
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    2.50     · 2 Ratings · published 1999 · 1 edition
    Educated, white collar professional women carried …

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    Hard Work: The Making Of Labor History
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    4.00     · 5 Ratings · published 2000 · 4 editions
    A career-spanning collection of writings by the le…

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    We Shall Be All: A History of the Industrial Workers of the World
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    4.13     · 83 Ratings · 11 Reviews · published 1969 · 10 editions
    This is the classic history of the Industrial Work…

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    AlabamaNorth: African-American Migrants, Community, and Working-Class Activism in Cleveland, 1915-1945
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    3.53     · 15 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 1999 · 5 editions
    Langston Hughes called it "a great dark tide from …

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    Waterfront Workers: New Perspectives on Race and Class
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    3.00     · 1 Ratings · published 1998 · 3 editions
    Few work settings compete with the waterfront for …

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    Down on the Killing Floor: Black and White Workers in Chicago's Packinghouses, 1904-54
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    4.32     · 22 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 1997 · 3 editions
    Rick Halpern examines the links between race relat…

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    "Negro and White, Unite and Fight!": A Social History of Industrial Unionism in Meatpacking, 1930-90
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    4.14     · 14 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 1997 · 2 editions
    This pathbreaking study traces the rise--and subse…

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    We Are All Leaders: The Alternative Unionism of the Early 1930s
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    4.48     · 21 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 1996 · 4 editions
    Contains the Bryant Spann Memorial Prize in Litera…

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    In Search of the Working Class: Essays in American Labor History and Political Culture
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    3.50     · 2 Ratings · published 1994 · 4 editions
    These nine essays by a prominent scholar in Americ…

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    Southern Labor and Black Civil Rights: Organizing Memphis Workers
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    4.10     · 39 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 1993 · 9 editions
    Widely praised upon publication and now considered…

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    Once a Cigar Maker: Men, Women, and Work Culture in American Cigar Factories, 1900-1919
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    3.60     · 5 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 1987 · 2 editions
    Patricia A. Cooper charts the course of competitio…

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    The Spirit of 1848: German Immigrants, Labor Conflict, and the Coming of the Civil War
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    3.64     · 14 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 1992 · 3 editions
    Immigrants and their children became the chief com…

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    Men, Women, and Work: Class, Gender, and Protest in the New England Shoe Industry, 1780-1910
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    3.50     · 8 Ratings · published 1988 · 2 editions
    "Blewett challenges historians to incorporate gend…

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    Solidarity and Fragmentation: Working People and Class Consciousness in Detroit, 1875-1900
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    4.40     · 5 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 1989 · 5 editions
    How did the interplay between class and ethnicity …

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    Labor Leaders in America
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    4.00     · 3 Ratings · published 1987 · 3 editions
    Here are the life stories of the men and women who…

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    Gender at Work: The Dynamics of Job Segregation by Sex during World War II
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    3.56     · 25 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 1986 · 4 editions
    Winner of the Joan Kelly Memorial Prize in Women's…

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    Workingmen's Democracy: The Knights of Labor and American Politics
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    4.16     · 19 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 1983 · 4 editions
    Focusing on the operation and influence of the Kni…

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    Life, Work, and Rebellion in the Coal Fields: The Southern West Virginia Miners, 1880-1922
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    4.35     · 60 Ratings · 10 Reviews · published 1981 · 5 editions
    Between 1880 and 1922, the coal fields of southern…

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    Guest Workers and Resistance to U.S. Corporate Despotism
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    4.00     · 4 Ratings · published 2011 · 9 editions
    Political scientist Immanuel Ness thoroughly inves…

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    Chicago in the Age of Capital: Class, Politics, and Democracy during the Civil War and Reconstruction
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    3.56     · 9 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 2012 · 9 editions
    In this sweeping interpretive history of mid-ninet…

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    The Rise of the Chicago Police Department: Class and Conflict, 1850-1894
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    4.31     · 13 Ratings · published 2013 · 6 editions
    Class turmoil, labor, and law and order in Chicago…

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    Making the World Safe for Workers: Labor, the Left, and Wilsonian Internationalism
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    3.67     · 6 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2013 · 6 editions
     

    In this intellectually ambitious study, Elizabeth…

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    Palomino: Clinton Jencks and Mexican-American Unionism in the American Southwest
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    2.00     · 1 Ratings · published 2013 · 4 editions
    The lifework of a trailblazer in American civil li…

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    A Contest of Ideas: Capital, Politics and Labor
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    4.25     · 8 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2012 · 6 editions
    For more than thirty years Nelson Lichtenstein has…

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    Man of Fire: Selected Writings
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    5.00     · 1 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2012 · 4 editions
    Activist, labor scholar, and organizer Ernesto Gal…

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    Latin American Migrations to the U.S. Heartland: Changing Social Landscapes in Middle America
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    0.00     · published 2012 · 6 editions
    This collection examines Latina/o immigrants and t…

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    Immigrants against the State: Yiddish and Italian Anarchism in America
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    4.44     · 41 Ratings · 7 Reviews · published 2015 · 5 editions

    From the 1880s through the 1940s, tens of thousan…

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    Workers in Hard Times: A Long View of Economic Crises (Volume 1)
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    3.50     · 2 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2014 · 5 editions
    Seeking to historicize the 2007-2009 Great Recessi…

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    Death and Dying in the Working Class, 1865-1920
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    3.67     · 3 Ratings · published 2014 · 8 editions
    Michael K. Rosenow investigates working people's b…

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    Redeeming Time: Protestantism and Chicago's Eight-Hour Movement, 1866-1912
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    3.67     · 3 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2014 · 2 editions
    During the struggle for the eight-hour workday and…

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    Smokestacks in the Hills: Rural-Industrial Workers in West Virginia
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    3.86     · 7 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2015 · 1 edition
    Long considered an urban phenomenon, industrializa…

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    Conservative Counterrevolution: Challenging Liberalism in 1950s Milwaukee
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    4.22     · 9 Ratings · 2 Reviews · 3 editions
    In the 1950s, Milwaukee's strong union movement an…

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    Victor Arnautoff and the Politics of Art
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    4.25     · 4 Ratings · 2 Reviews · 3 editions
    Victor Arnautoff reigned as San Francisco's leadin…

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