Southern Labor and Black Civil Rights

Michael K Honey

• Paperback | Engels | Working Class in American History
• Widely praised upon publication and now considered a classic study, Southern Labor and Black Civil Rights chronicles the southern industrial union mov... Lees meer

Strong Winds and Widow Makers

Steven C Beda

• Hardcover | Engels | Working Class in American History
• Winner of the 2022 Philip Taft Labor History Book Prize Often cast as villains in the Northwest's environmental battles, timber workers in fact have a... Lees meer

Fraying Fabric

James C Benton

• Paperback | Engels | Working Class in American History
• The decline of the U.S. textile and apparel industries between the 1940s and 1970s helped lay the groundwork for the twenty-first century's potent eco... Lees meer

Reinventing the People

Shelton Stromquist

• Paperback | Engels | Working Class in American History
• A comprehensive study of the Progressive movement, Reinventing "The People" contends that the persistence of class conflict in America challenged the ... Lees meer

Hillbilly Hellraisers

J Blake Perkins

• Paperback | Engels | Working Class in American History
• Long a bastion of antigovernment feeling, the Ozark region today is home to fervent strains of conservative-influenced sentiment. Does rural heritage ... Lees meer

The Tribe of Black Ulysses

William P Jones

• Paperback | Engels | Working Class in American History
• The lumber industry employed more African American men than any southern economic sector outside agriculture. Yet little scholarship exists on these w... Lees meer

Eugene V. Debs

Nick Salvatore

• Paperback | Engels | Working Class in American History
• The triumphs and tragedies of a great American socialist Lees meer

On the Waves of Empire

William D Riddell

• Hardcover | Engels | Working Class in American History
• In the aftermath of the Spanish-American War, the United States' acquisition of an overseas empire compelled the nation to reconsider the boundary bet... Lees meer

The Bosses' Union

Vilja Hulden

• Hardcover | Engels | Working Class in American History
• At the opening of the twentieth century, labor strife repeatedly racked the nation. Union organization and collective bargaining briefly looked like a... Lees meer

Sewing the Fabric of Statehood

Adam M Howard

• Paperback | Engels | Working Class in American History
• Long a bastion of Jewish labor power, garment unions provided financial and political aid essential to founding and building the nation of Israel. Thr... Lees meer

The Labor Board Crew

Ronald W Schatz

• Hardcover | Engels | Working Class in American History
• Ronald Schatz tells the story of the team of young economists and lawyers whom George W. Taylor recruited to the National War Labor Board to resolve u... Lees meer

Immigrants Against the State

Kenyon Zimmer

• Hardcover | Engels | Working Class in American History
• From the 1880s through the 1940s, tens of thousands of first- and second-generation immigrants embraced the anarchist cause after arriving on American... Lees meer

The Rise of the Chicago Police Department

Sam Mitrani

• Hardcover | Engels | Working Class in American History
• Class turmoil, labor, and law and order in Chicago In this book, Sam Mitrani cogently examines the making of the police department in Chicago, which b... Lees meer

Child Care in Black and White

Jessie B Ramey

• Hardcover | Engels | Working Class in American History
• Reconceptualises the orphanage as day care Lees meer

Gleanings of Freedom

Max Grivno

• Hardcover | Engels | Working Class in American History
• Late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century landowners in the hinterlands of Baltimore, Maryland, cobbled together workforces from a diverse labor p... Lees meer

The Rise of the Chicago Police Department

Sam Mitrani

• Paperback | Engels | Working Class in American History
• Class turmoil, labor, and law and order in Chicago In this book, Sam Mitrani cogently examines the making of the police department in Chicago, which b... Lees meer

Disruption in Detroit

Daniel J Clark

• Paperback | Engels | Working Class in American History
• It is a bedrock American belief: the 1950s were a golden age of prosperity for autoworkers. Flush with high wages and enjoying the benefits of generou... Lees meer

NAFTA and Labor in North America

Norman Caulfield

• Hardcover | Engels | Working Class in American History
• As companies increasingly look to the global market for capital, cheaper commodities and labor, and lower production costs, the impact on Mexican and ... Lees meer

Gendering Labor History

Alice Kessler-Harris

• Paperback | Engels | Working Class in American History
• This collection represents the thirty-year intellectual trajectory of one of today's leading historians of gender and labor in the United States. The ... Lees meer

Strong Winds and Widow Makers

Steven C Beda

• Paperback | Engels | Working Class in American History
• Winner of the 2022 Philip Taft Labor History Book Prize Often cast as villains in the Northwest's environmental battles, timber workers in fact have a... Lees meer

Purple Power

• Paperback | Engels | Working Class in American History
• Chartered in 1921, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) is a worldwide organization that represents more than two million workers in occup... Lees meer

Labor Histories

• Paperback | Engels | Working Class in American History
• Is class outmoded as a basis for understanding labor history? This collection emphatically answers, "No!" These thirteen essays delve into subjects li... Lees meer

Glass Towns

Ken Fones-Wolf

• Paperback | Engels | Working Class in American History
• While rich in natural resources, Appalachia remains a nationwide symbol of poverty. Ken Fones-Wolf deftly combines labor and business history to exami... Lees meer

Alabamanorth

Kimberley L Phillips

• Paperback | Engels | Working Class in American History
• Langston Hughes called it "a great dark tide from the South" the unprecedented influx of blacks into Cleveland that gave the city the nickname "Alabam... Lees meer