Working-Class America
Essays on Labor, Community, and American Society
Examining labor history's currents and concerns in the 1980s
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About the Book
Working-Class America represents the new labor history par excellence. Its ten original essays, by some of the best young scholars in the field, are at the frontier of current research and demonstrate the ability of working-class historians to produce exciting new insights into the nature of American society.Working-Class America, however, offers more than scholarly historical-sociological analyses. In these pages, the lives of real men and women emerge from behind the veil of statistical abstraction. It is precisely that human dimension which makes this collection so valuable as a digest for scholars and yet so accessible as a text for students.
About the Author
Michael H. Frisch is a professor and Senior Research Scholar Emeritus at the University of Buffalo. He is the author of A Shared Authority: Essays on the Craft And Meaning of Oral and Public History and Portraits in Steel. Daniel J. Walkowitz is a professor emeritus at New York University. He is the author of Working with Class: Social Workers and the Politics of Middle-Class Identity and coeditor of Memory and the Impact of Political Transformations in Public Spaces.Reviews
"This book represents the pick of a growing crop. The authors are . . . inspired by the belief in the capacity of ordinary people to overrule the directors of the corporation and the state."--Michael Kazin, The Nation"These essays represent the highest state of the art. . . . They are mandatory reading for scholars and students alike."--Bruce Laurie, Industrial and Labor Relations Review
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