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The Working Class in American History


Acquiring Editor: Laurie Matheson
Series Editors: James R. Barrett, Julie Greene, William P. Jones, Alice Kessler-Harris, and Nelson Lichtenstein

Committed to publishing the highest quality work in labor history, the Working Class in American History series has been a vanguard of the "new" labor history since its premiere in 1978. Building on a deep foundation of workplace, community, culture, and political studies, the series maintains a commitment to placing the experience and agency of working people at the center of U.S. history.


link to catalog page , Latin American Migrations to the U.S. Heartland

Latin American Migrations to the U.S. Heartland

Changing Social Landscapes in Middle America

Author: Edited by Linda Allegro and Andrew Grant Wood
Pub Date: June 2013

New perspectives on Latin American migration to the interior United States   learn more...

link to catalog page , Palomino

Palomino

Clinton Jencks and Mexican-American Unionism in the American Southwest

Author: James J. Lorence
Pub Date: June 2013

A trailblazer in American labor and civil liberties   learn more...

link to catalog page , Man of Fire

Man of Fire

Selected Writings

Author: Ernesto Galarza Edited by Armando Ibarra and Rodolfo D. Torres
Pub Date: July 2013

A collection of key works by the Latino labor activist and scholar   learn more...

link to catalog page , Wobblies on the Waterfront

Wobblies on the Waterfront

Interracial Unionism in Progressive-Era Philadelphia

Author: Peter Cole
Pub Date: Cloth: 2007; Paper: March 2013

The rise and fall of America’s first truly diverse labor union   learn more...

link to catalog page , Detroit's Cold War

Detroit's Cold War

The Origins of Postwar Conservatism

Author: Colleen Doody
Pub Date: January 2013

An essential contribution to the history of anticommunism and postwar conservatism   learn more...

link to catalog page , Child Care in Black and White

Child Care in Black and White

Working Parents and the History of Orphanages

Author: Jessie B. Ramey
Pub Date: Cloth: 2012; Paper: 2013

Reconceptualizing the orphanage as day care   learn more...

link to catalog page , Chicago in the Age of Capital

Chicago in the Age of Capital

Class, Politics, and Democracy during the Civil War and Reconstruction

Author: John B. Jentz and Richard Schneirov
Pub Date: April 2012

Building a city on a shifting, clashing political economy   learn more...

link to catalog page , The Haymarket Conspiracy

The Haymarket Conspiracy

Transatlantic Anarchist Networks

Author: Timothy Messer-Kruse
Pub Date: August 2012

A bold reconsideration of the roots and realities of American anarchism   learn more...

link to catalog page , A Renegade Union

A Renegade Union

Interracial Organizing and Labor Radicalism

Author: Lisa Phillips
Pub Date: January 2013

Organizing the "unorganizable"   learn more...

link to catalog page , Banded Together

Banded Together

Economic Democratization in the Brass Valley

Author: Jeremy Brecher
Pub Date: May 2011

One community's response to globalization and deindustrialization   learn more...

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