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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 , The Labor Question in America

The Labor Question in America

Economic Democracy in the Gilded Age

Author: Rosanne Currarino
Pub Date: February 2011

A nuanced assessment of citizenship and labor in the Gilded Age   learn more...

link to catalog page , The Gospel of the Working Class

The Gospel of the Working Class

Labor's Southern Prophets in New Deal America

Author: Erik S. Gellman and Jarod Roll
Pub Date: July 2011

How two southern ministers preached and practiced a vision of a more democratic America   learn more...

link to catalog page , Gleanings of Freedom

Gleanings of Freedom

Free and Slave Labor along the Mason-Dixon Line, 1790-1860

Author: Max Grivno
Pub Date: January 2011

The transformation of slavery and free labor in the Upper South   learn more...

link to catalog page , Guest Workers and Resistance to U.S. Corporate Despotism Author: Immanuel Ness
Pub Date: October 2011

Exposing the corporate structures behind exploitative migrant labor programs   learn more...

link to catalog page , NAFTA and Labor in North America Author: Norman Caulfield
Pub Date: February 2010

A cogent analysis of North American trade unions' precipitous decline in recent decades   learn more...

link to catalog page , James P. Cannon and the Origins of the American Revolutionary Left, 1890-1928 Author: Bryan D. Palmer
Pub Date: Cloth: 2007; Paper: 2010

The American revolutionary tradition reconsidered   learn more...

link to catalog page , Union-Free America

Union-Free America

Workers and Antiunion Culture

Author: Lawrence Richards
Pub Date: 2008

How antiunionism shapes the hearts and minds of American workers   learn more...

link to catalog page , Making Capitalism Safe

Making Capitalism Safe

Work Safety and Health Regulation in America, 1880-1940

Author: Donald W. Rogers
Pub Date: January 2010

A broad, historical appraisal of the evolution of work safety and health regulation in the U.S.   learn more...

link to catalog page , Spirit of Rebellion

Spirit of Rebellion

Labor and Religion in the New Cotton South

Author: Jarod Roll
Pub Date: May 2010

Crossing the color line with revivalism among working-class Southerners   learn more...

link to catalog page , Staley

Staley

The Fight for a New American Labor Movement

Author: Steven K. Ashby and C. J. Hawking
Pub Date: April 2009

A dramatic story of worker resistance in a pivotal labor struggle   learn more...

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