Child Care in Black and White

Jessie B Ramey

• Hardcover | Engels | Working Class in American History
• This innovative study examines the development of institutional childcare from 1878 to 1929, based on a comparison of two "sister" orphanages in Pitts... 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

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

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's Mind

Tobias Higbie

• Paperback | Engels | Working Class in American History
• Business leaders, conservative ideologues, and even some radicals of the early twentieth century dismissed working people's intellect as stunted, twis... Lees meer

To Live Here, You Have to Fight

Jessica Wilkerson

• Paperback | Engels | Working Class in American History
• Launched in 1964, the War on Poverty quickly took aim at the coalfields of southern Appalachia. There, the federal government found unexpected allies ... Lees meer

Workers of All Colors Unite

Lorenzo Costaguta

• Paperback | Engels | Working Class in American History
• As the United States transformed into an industrial superpower, American socialists faced the vexing question of how to approach race. Lorenzo Costagu... Lees meer

Purple Power

• Hardcover | 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's Outcasts

Andrew J Hazelton

• Paperback | Engels | Working Class in American History
• In the mid-twentieth century, corporations consolidated control over agriculture on the backs of Mexican migrant laborers through a guestworker system... Lees meer

Banded Together

Jeremy Brecher

• Hardcover | Engels | Working Class in American History
• Providing incisive commentary on the historical and contemporary American working class experience, Banded Together: Economic Democratization in the B... Lees meer

The Haymarket Conspiracy

Timothy Messer-Kruse

• Hardcover | Engels | Working Class in American History
• The Haymarket Conspiracy: Transatlantic Anarchist Networks traces the evolution of revolutionary anarchist ideas in Europe and their migration to the ... Lees meer

The Way We Build

Mark Erlich

• Hardcover | Engels | Working Class in American History
• The construction trades once provided unionized craftsmen a route to the middle class and a sense of pride and dignity often denied other blue-collar ... Lees meer

On the Waves of Empire

William D Riddell

• Paperback | 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

Harry Bridges

Robert W Cherny

• Paperback | Engels | Working Class in American History
• Winner of a Silver Medal from the Independent Publisher Book Awards Won Honorable Mention for 2023 ILHA Book of the Year (International Labor History ... 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

Workers Against the City

Donald W Rogers

• Paperback | Engels | Working Class in American History
• The 1939 Supreme Court decision Hague v. CIO was a constitutional milestone that strengthened the right of Americans, including labor organizers, to a... Lees meer

Chicago in the Age of Capital

John B Jentz, Richard Schneirov

• Paperback | Engels | Working Class in American History
• In this sweeping interpretive history of mid-nineteenth-century Chicago, historians John B. Jentz and Richard Schneirov boldly trace the evolution of ... Lees meer

James P. Cannon and the Origins of the American Revolutionary Left, 1890-1928

Bryan D Palmer

• Paperback | Engels | Working Class in American History
• Bryan D. Palmer's award-winning study of James P. Cannon's early years (1890-1928) details how the life of a Wobbly hobo agitator gave way to leadersh... Lees meer

Where Are the Workers?

• Paperback | Engels | Working Class in American History
• The labor movement in the United States is a bulwark of democracy and a driving force for social and economic equality. Yet its stories remain largely... Lees meer

Labor Justice Across the Americas

• Paperback | Engels | Working Class in American History
• Opinions of specialized labor courts differ, but labor justice undoubtedly represented a decisive moment in worker 's history. When and how did these ... Lees meer

The Great Strikes of 1877

• Hardcover | Engels | Working Class in American History
• A spectacular example of collective violence, the Great Strikes of 1877 was the first national strike and the first major strikes against the railroad... Lees meer

Smokestacks in the Hills

Lou Martin

• Paperback | Engels | Working Class in American History
• Long considered an urban phenomenon, industrialization also transformed the American countryside. Lou Martin weaves the narrative of how the relocatio... Lees meer

Glass Towns

Ken Fones-Wolf

• Hardcover | Working Class in American History
• Exploring a path not taken in Appalachian economic development--one that might have led away from underdevelopment Lees meer

Dockworker Power

Peter Cole

• Paperback | Engels | Working Class in American History
• Philip Taft Labor History Book Award, Labor and Working-Class History Association (LAWCHA) and the Cornell ILR School, 2019 A Black Perspectives Best ... Lees meer