The Human Tradition in American Labor History

by Arnesen, Eric

• ISBN13: 9780842029872
• ISBN10: 0842029877
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-12-01
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

The Human Tradition in American Labor History is a comprehensive exploration of the American working class from the colonial period to the present. In marked contrast to most academic treatments of American labor, this book presents history through

Table of Contents

Introduction	xi
Eric Arnesen
Mary Hale and Ann Edmonds: Gender, Women's Work, and Health in Colonial Massachusetts	1	(14)
Rebecca J. Tannenbaum
Gabriel's Conspiracy: The Lives of Enslaved Artisans in Richmond, Virginia	15	(16)
James Sidbury
Sarah Bagley: Laboring for Life	31	(16)
Teresa Murphy
Beeswax Taylor: The Forgotten Legacy of Labor Insurgency in Gilded Age America	47	(22)
Paul Krause
William R. Riley: Limits of Interracial Unionism in the Late-Nineteenth-Century South	69	(20)
Karin A. Shapiro
Eugene V. Debs: From Conservative Unionist to American Socialist	89	(18)
Colin J. Davis
Pauline Newman: Immigration, Jewish Radicalism, and Gender	107	(22)
Annelise Orleck
Karl Yoneda: Radical Organizing and Asian American Labor	129	(24)
Chris Friday
James Evans: Religion and Working-Class Protest in the New South	153	(20)
Bryant Simon
A. Philip Randolph: Labor and the New Black Politics	173	(20)
Eric Arnesen
Vernon Lawhorn, Thomas James Buchner, and the Green Brothers: Reverse Migration in World War II	193	(18)
Risa L. Goluboff
Dolores Huerta: The United Farm Workers Union	211	(20)
Margaret Rose
Walter Reuther: The Promise of Modern America	231	(18)
Kevin Boyle
Index	249