The Working Class in American History

Acquiring Editor: Laurie Matheson

Series Editors: James R. Barrett, Alice Kessler-Harris, Nelson Lichtenstein, and David Montgomery

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.

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• HIRSCH, Susan Eleanor :  After the Strike: A Century of Labor Struggle at Pullman
  
  
• PHILLIPS, Kimberley L. :  AlabamaNorth: African-American Migrants, Community, and Working-Class Activism in Cleveland, 1915-45
  
  
• JAMESON, Elizabeth :  All That Glitters: Class, Conflict, and Community in Cripple Creek
  
  
• MERCIER, Laurie :  Anaconda: Labor, Community, and Culture in Montana's Smelter City
  
  
• KAZIN, Michael :  Barons of Labor: The San Francisco Building Trades and Union Power in the Progressive Era
  
  
• HUNTLEY, Edited by Horace and David Montgomery:  Black Workers' Struggle for Equality in Birmingham
  
  
• BUCKI, Cecelia :  Bridgeport's Socialist New Deal, 1915-36
  
  
• BJELOPERA, Jerome P. :  City of Clerks: Office and Sales Workers in Philadelphia, 1870-1920
  
  
• WITWER, David :  Corruption and Reform in the Teamsters Union
  
  
• BENSON, Susan Porter :  Counter Cultures: Saleswomen, Managers, and Customers in American Department Stores, 1890-1940
  
  
• COBBLE, Dorothy Sue :  Dishing It Out: Waitresses and Their Unions in the Twentieth Century
  
  
• HALPERN, Rick :  Down on the Killing Floor: Black and White Workers in Chicago's Packinghouses, 1904-54
  
  
• ROSE, James D. :  Duquesne and the Rise of Steel Unionism
  
  
• SALVATORE, Nick :  Eugene V. Debs: Citizen and Socialist
  
  
• MILKMAN, Ruth :  Gender at Work: The Dynamics of Job Segregation by Sex during World War II
  
  
• KESSLER-HARRIS, Alice :  Gendering Labor History
  
  
• KEIL, Edited by Hartmut and John B. Jentz:  German Workers in Chicago: A Documentary History of Working-Class Culture from 1850 to World War I
  
  
• FONES-WOLF, Ken :  Glass Towns: Industry, Labor, and Political Economy in Appalachia, 1890-1930s
  
  
• STOWELL, Edited by David O. :  The Great Strikes of 1877
  
  
• DUBOFSKY, Melvyn :  Hard Work: The Making of Labor History
  
  
• FINK, Leon :  In Search of the Working Class: Essays in American Labor History and Political Culture
  
  
• HIGBIE, Frank Tobias :  Indispensable Outcasts: Hobo Workers and Community in the American Midwest, 1880-1930
  
  
• PALMER, Bryan D. :  James P. Cannon and the Origins of the American Revolutionary Left, 1890-1928
  
  
• SCHNEIROV, Richard :  Labor and Urban Politics: Class Conflict and the Origins of Modern Liberalism in Chicago, 1864-97
  
  
• BRODY, David :  Labor Embattled: History, Power, Rights
  
  
• ARNESEN, Edited by Eric, Julie Greene, and Bruce Laurie:  Labor Histories: Class, Politics, and the Working-Class Experience
  
  
• LEAB, Edited by Daniel J. :  The Labor History Reader
  
  
• DUBOFSKY, Edited by Melvyn and Warren Van Tine:  Labor Leaders in America
  
  
• STROMQUIST, Edited by Shelton :  Labor’s Cold War: Local Politics in a Global Context
  
  
• CORBIN, David A. :  Life, Work, and Rebellion in the Coal Fields: The Southern West Virginia Miners, 1880-1922
  
  
• BODNAR, John, Roger Simon, and Michael P. Weber:  Lives of Their Own: Blacks, Italians, and Poles in Pittsburgh, 1900-1960
  
  
• BRUNDAGE, David :  The Making of Western Labor Radicalism: Denver's Organized Workers, 1878-1905
  
  
• BLEWETT, Mary H. :  Men, Women, and Work: Class, Gender, and Protest in the New England Shoe Industry, 1780-1910
  
  
• HOROWITZ, Roger :  "Negro and White, Unite and Fight!": A Social History of Industrial Unionism in Meatpacking, 1930-90
  
  
• LEVY, Peter B. :  The New Left and Labor in the 1960s
  
  
• COOPER, Patricia A. :  Once a Cigar Maker: Men, Women, and Work Culture in American Cigar Factories, 1900-1919
  
  
• PASTORELLO, Karen :  A Power among Them: Bessie Abramowitz Hillman and the Making of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America
  
  
• LEWIS-COLMAN, David M. :  Race against Liberalism: Black Workers and the UAW in Detroit
  
  
• KELLY, Brian :  Race, Class, and Power in the Alabama Coalfields, 1908-21
  
  
• FEURER, Rosemary :  Radical Unionism in the Midwest, 1900-1950
  
  
• STORCH, Randi :  Red Chicago: American Communism at Its Grassroots, 1928-35
  
  
• STROMQUIST, Shelton :  Reinventing “The People”: The Progressive Movement, the Class Problem, and the Origins of Modern Liberalism
  
  
• DESLIPPE, Dennis A. :  "Rights, Not Roses": Unions and the Rise of Working-Class Feminism, 1945-80
  
  
• OESTREICHER, Richard Jules :  Solidarity and Fragmentation: Working People and Class Consciousness in Detroit, 1875-1900
  
  
• HONEY, Michael K. :  Southern Labor and Black Civil Rights: Organizing Memphis Workers
  
  
• WALDREP, G. C. III:  Southern Workers & Search for Community: Spartanburg County, South Carolina
  
  
• LEVINE, Bruce :  The Spirit of 1848: German Immigrants, Labor Conflict, and the Coming of the Civil War
  
  
• LYONS, John F. :  Teachers and Reform: Chicago Public Education, 1929-1970
  
  
• IRONS, Janet :  Testing the New Deal: The General Textile Strike of 1934 in the American South
  
  
• SCHNEIDER, Dorothee :  Trade Unions and Community: The German Working Class in New York City, 1870-1900
  
  
• JONES, William P. :  The Tribe of Black Ulysses: African American Lumber Workers in the Jim Crow South
  
  
• RICHARDS, Lawrence :  Union-Free America: Workers and Antiunion Culture
  
  
• DAVIS, Colin J. :  Waterfront Revolts: New York and London Dockworkers, 1946-61
  
  
• WINSLOW, Edited by Calvin :  Waterfront Workers: New Perspectives on Race and Class
  
  
• SALVATORE, Nick :  We All Got History: The Memory Books of Amos Webber
  
  
• LYND, Edited by Staughton :  "We Are All Leaders": The Alternative Unionism of the Early 1930s
  
  
• DUBOFSKY, Melvyn :  We Shall Be All: A History of the Industrial Workers of the World (abridged ed.)
  
  
• COLE, Peter :  Wobblies on the Waterfront: Interracial Unionism in Progressive-Era Philadelphia
  
  
• BUHLE, Mari Jo :  Women and American Socialism, 1870-1920
  
  
• BARRETT, James R. :  Work and Community in the Jungle: Chicago's Packinghouse Workers, 1894-1922
  
  
• LIPIN, Lawrence M. :  Workers and the Wild: Conservation, Consumerism, and Labor in Oregon, 1910-30
  
  
• NELSON, Bruce :  Workers on the Waterfront: Seamen, Longshoremen, and Unionism in the 1930s
  
  
• FRISCH, Edited by Michael H. and Daniel J. Walkowitz:  Working-Class America: Essays on Labor, Community, and American Society
  
  
• FINK, Leon :  Workingmen's Democracy: The Knights of Labor and American Politics
  
  

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