Introduction | |
John R. Commons, Herbert Gutman, and the Burden of Labor History | p. 3 |
Class Conflict American-Style | p. 15 |
Politics as Social History: A Case Study of Class Conflict and Political Development in Nineteenth-Century New England | p. 33 |
A Labor Crusade behind the Magnolia Curtain: Hospital Workers and the Politics of Race and Class | p. 51 |
The New Labor History and the Powers of Historical Pessimism: Consensus, Hegemony, and the Case of the Knights of Labor | p. 89 |
Labor, Liberty, and the Law: Trade Unionism and the Problem of the American Constitutional Order | p. 144 |
Looking Backward: Reflections on Workers' Culture and Certain Conceptual Dilemmas within Labor History | p. 175 |
"Intellectuals" versus "Workers": Academic Requirements and the Creation of Labor History | p. 201 |
Culture's Last Stand? Gender and the Search for Synthesis in American Labor History | p. 236 |
Index | p. 249 |
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