Description |
ix, 286 p. ; 24 cm. |
Series |
Working class in American history
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Note |
Papers prepared for a conference at the University of Bremen, Nov. 1978. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
Introduction: American labor history in the United States and Europe / D. Hoerder -- Workers, scholars, militancy: Strikes and economics, working-class insurgency and the birth of labor historiography in the 1880s / B. Cartosio. W.E.B. Du Bois and the proletariat in Black reconstruction / F. Gambino. Workers' self-organization and resistance in the 1877 strikes / M. Debouzy. "Reefs of roast beef," the American worker's standard of living in comparative perspective / P.R. Shergold --Organization: The Socialist and the working class in New York, 1890-96 / H. Perrier. The parameters of craft consciousness, the social outlook of the skilled worker, 1890-1920 / A. Dawson. The German immigrant working class of Chicago, 1875-90 / H. Keil. Yugoslav immigrants in the U.S. labor movement, 1880-1920 / I. Cizmic |
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(cont.) Immigrants: Unestablished Irishmen, new immigrants and industrial America, 1870-1910 / D.N.Doyle. Strikes and political radicalism in Swenden and emigration to the United States / L.G. Tedebrand. Political mobilization of the workers, the case of the Worcester Swedes / S. Jakerman & H. Norman. For or against americanization? The case of the Finnish immigrant radicals / A. Kostiainen. |
Subject |
Working class -- History -- Congresses.
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European Americans -- History -- Congresses.
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Noncitizens -- History -- Congresses.
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Added Author |
Hoerder, Dirk.
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ISBN |
0252009630 |
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