| Description |
397 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Series |
Revolutionary studies series
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Why the working class still matters / Paul Le Blanc and John Hinshaw -- Making of the American working class / Harry Braverman -- Working-class studies : where it's been lately and where it's going / Sherry Linkon ... [et al.] -- Ethnic organizing : a double-edged sword / Dan Georgakas -- Appeal to reason and the mass socialist movement before World War I / David Riehle -- Representations of women in narratives about the great steel strike of 1919 / David Demarest -- Reflections on the great migration to western Pennsylvania / Joe W. Trotter -- Gendered social world of steelmaking : a case study of Bethlehem Steel's Sparrows Point plant / Karen Olson -- Revolutionary vanguards in the United States during the 1930s / Paul Le Blanc -- Role of women and of radicals in the first sit-down strikes : an interview with Genora Johnson Dollinger / Kathleen O'Nan -- Opportunities found and lost : labor, radicals, and the early civil rights movement / Robert Korstad and Nelson Lichtenstein -- A. Philip Randolph and the foundations of black socialism / Manning Marable -- Working-class lives/working-class studies : a historian's perspective / Lizabeth Cohen -- Modest but adequate : standard of living for Mon Valley steelworkers in the union era / Mark McColloch -- We are the union / Ed Mann -- Black workers' struggles for jobs and civil rights in twentieth-century Pittsburgh / John Hinshaw -- Why unions matter / Elaine Bernard -- Century of struggle in Homestead : working-class responses to corporate power / Irwin M. Marcus -- Role of labor today : reflections on the past throw light on the road ahead / James J. Matles -- Seeds of a labor insurgency / Peter Rachleff -- Struggle for survival / General Baker. |
| Subject |
Appeal to reason (Girard, Kan.)
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Working class -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Labor movement -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Industrial relations -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Industrial mobilization -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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| Added Author |
Hinshaw, John H., 1963-
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Le Blanc, Paul, 1947-
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| Added Title |
United States labor in the twentieth century |
| ISBN |
1573928658 (paper : alk. paper) |
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