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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      11 September 2009
      28 August 1987
      ISBN:
      9780511528774
      9780521225793
      9780521379823
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511528774
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.8kg, 508 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.756kg, 508 Pages
      • Subjects:
      American History: General Interest, Area Studies, American Studies, American Government, Politics and Policy, History, Politics and International Relations
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    American History: General Interest, Area Studies, American Studies, American Government, Politics and Policy, History, Politics and International Relations
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    This book studies the changing ways in which American industrial workers mobilised concerted action in their own interests between the abolition of slavery and the end of open immigration from Europe and Asia. Sustained class conflict between 1916 and 1922 reshaped governmental and business policies, but left labour largely unorganised and in retreat. The House of Labor, so arduously erected by working-class activists during the preceeding generation, did not collapse, but ossified, so that when labour activism was reinvigorated after 1933, the movement split in two. These developments are analysed here in ways which stress the links between migration, neighbourhood life, racial subjugation, business reform, the state, and the daily experience of work itself.

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    "David Montgomery...both exemplifies and transcends the recent trend toward painstakingly detailed social history...he has undertaken a far vaster project than most contemporary labor historians would attempt: American labor activism of all varieties and locales, from the time when American workers organized the first tentative but recognizable trade unions, in the mid-nineteenth century, to the emergence of the working class as an insurrectionary force during the first two decades of the twentieth century, to its humiliating defeat in the years following the First World War...the closest thing we have...to E.P. Thompson's monumental book, The Making of the English Working Class." Barbara Ehrenreich, in The Atlantic

    "...the most sweeping portrait of working-class life to emerge from the new labor history...a subtle, complex, often brilliant study..." Alan Brinkley in the New Republic

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