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David W. Montgomery
A foundational figure in modern labor history, David Montgomery both redefined and reoriented the field. This collection of Montgomery's most important published and unpublished articles and essays draws from the…
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James R. Barrett
Chronicles how a new urban American identity was forged in the streets, saloons, churches, and workplaces of the American city. This book illustrates how the interactions between the Irish and…
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Traces the political journey of a leading worker radical whose life and experiences encapsulate radicalism’s rise and fall in the United States. Integrating indigenous and international factors that determined the…
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James R. Barrett rethinks the boundaries of American working-class history by investigating the ways in which working-class people’s personal lives intersected with their activism and religious, racial, ethnic, and class…
Chicago’s packinghouse workers were not the hopeless creatures depicted by Upton Sinclair in The Jungle,but active agents in the early twentieth century transformation that swept urban industrial America. In…
Upton Sinclair
Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle is a vivid portrait of life and death in a turn-of-the-century American meat-packing factory. A grim indictment that led to government regulations of the food industry…
Hutchins Hapgood
A compelling account of working-class life and politics that make up American Labor history.
Henry R Edmunds
Full Title: Luka Bachich v. Schooner Henry O. Barrett, Dredge Columbia and Steam Tug James McCaulley. } No. 19 of 1903. American Dredging Company v. Schooner Henry O. Barrett and…
Alike in many aspects of their histories, Australia and the United States diverge in striking ways when it comes to their working classes, labor relations, and politics. Greg Patmore and…
Labor studies scholars and working-class historians have long worked at the crossroads of academia and activism. The essays in this collection examine the challenges and opportunities for engaged scholarship in…
The founding of the university in 1867 created a unique community in what had been a prairie. Within a few years, this creative mix of teachers and scholars produced innovations…
James Tregaskis
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This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the…
John J Bukowczyk
Contributors: James R. Barrett, Douglas C. Baynton, Vibha Bhalla, Julio Capao, Jr., Robert Fleegler, Gunleog Fur, Hidetaka Hirota, Karen Leonard, Willow Lung-Amam, Raymond A. Mohl, Mark Overmyer-Velaazquez, Lara Putnam, David…
