Working-Class America

Essays on Labor, Community, and American Society

Michael H Frisch, Daniel J Walkowitz, Michael H Frisch, Daniel J Walkowitz

• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN:
  9780252009549
• eBook ISBN:
  9780252054624
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Business General
• Index: Business

At the time of its original publication, Working-Class America represented the new labor history par excellence. A roster of noteworthy scholars in the field contribute original essays written during a pivotal time in the nation's history and within the discipline. Moving beyond historical-sociological analyses, the authors take readers inside the lives of the real men and women behind the statistics. The result is a classic collection focused on the human dimensions of the field, one valuable not only as a resource for historiography but as a snapshot of workers and their concerns in the 1980s.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Introduction
• The Social System of Early New England Textile Mills: A Case Study, 1812-40
• Artisan Republican Festivals and the Rise of Class Conflict in New York City, 1788-1837
• The Origins of the Sweatshop: Women and Early Industrialization in New York City
• The Uses of Political Power: Toward a Theory of the Labor Movement in the Era of the Knights of Labor
• The Triumph of Commerce: Class Culture and Mass Culture in Pittsburgh
• Trade-Union Evangelism: Religion and the AFL in the Labor Forward Movement, 1912-16
• “The Customers Ain’t God”: The Work Culture of Department-Store Saleswomen, 1890-1940
• Dress Rehearsal for the New Deal: Shop-Floor Insurgents, Political Elites, and Industrial Democracy in the Amalgamated Clothing Workers
• Catholics, Communists, and Republicans: Irish Workers and the Organization of the Transport Workers Union
• Conflict over Workers’ Control: The Automobile Industry in World War II
• Notes on Contributors