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Title Working for democracy : American workers from the Revolution to the present / edited by Paul Buhle and Alan Dawley ; foreward by Herbert G. Gutman.

Imprint Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c1985.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe Special Collections Whitehead  331.0973 W8925 c.2  ---  Lib Use Only
Description xv, 148 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Bibliography Bibliography: p. 143-145.
Contents Revolutionary mechanics / Alfred F. Young -- Workingmen's parties / Franklin Rosemont -- Workers and slavery / Eric Foner -- Women's labor and politics / Mari Jo Buhle -- Paths to power after the Civil War / Alan Dawley -- Socialists and wobblies / Paul Buhle -- Black workers from Reconstruction to the Great Depression / Nell Irvin Painter -- Farmer-Labor Party / David Montgomery -- Labor and the New Deal / James R. Green -- Blacks and the CIO / Richard Thomas -- Labor and the Cold War / George Lipsitz -- Women workers / Barbara Mayer Wertheimer -- Black insurgency / Manning Marable -- Labor and capital today and tomorrow / Sidney Lens.
Subject Working class -- United States -- History.
Labor supply -- United States -- History.
Labor unions -- United States -- History.
Added Author Buhle, Paul, 1944-
Dawley, Alan, 1943-2008.
ISBN 0252012216 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0252012208 (alk. paper)
9780252012204 (alk. paper)
9780252012211 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Standard No. NLGGC 853800057
NZ1 3072857
AU@ 000003795479

 
    
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