Rethinking U.S. Labor History Essays on the Working-Class Experience, 1756-2009

by Haverty-Stacke, Donna T.; Walkowitz, Daniel J.

• ISBN13: 9780826401984
• ISBN10: 0826401988
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-10-21
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

Rethinking U.S. Labor History provides a reassessment of the recent growth and new directions in U.S. labor history.

Table of Contents

Contributors1.     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