Living Labor

Joseph B Entin

• Paperback | Engels | Class: Culture
• For much of the twentieth century, the iconic figure of the U.S. working class was a white, male industrial worker. But in the contemporary age of cap... Lees meer

Commerce in Color

James C Davis

• Paperback | Engels | Class: Culture
• Commerce in Color explores the juncture of consumer culture and race by examining advertising, literary texts, mass culture, and public events in the ... Lees meer

The Half-Life of Deindustrialization

Sherry Lee Linkon

• Hardcover | Engels | Class: Culture
• Starting in the late 1970s, tens of thousands of American industrial workers lost jobs in factories and mines. Deindustrialization had dramatic effect... Lees meer

Vanishing Moments

Eric Schocket

• Paperback | Engels | Class: Culture
• Vanishing Moments analyzes how various American authors have reified class through their writing, from the first influx of industrialism in the 1850s ... Lees meer

Michael Moore

• Paperback | Engels | Class: Culture
• For more than twenty years, Michael Moore has transformed himself from a marginal filmmaker into a cultural icon, unofficial spokesperson for liberals... Lees meer

Natural Acts

Pamela Fox

• Hardcover | Engels | Class: Culture
• "'All I gotta do is act naturally, ' Buck Owens sang, and Pamela Fox knows where the acting comes in. From early hillbilly acts to alt.country, Natura... Lees meer

The Wire

• Hardcover | Engels | Class: Culture
• Few other television series have received as much academic, media, and fan celebration as The Wire , which has been called the best dramatic series ev... Lees meer

Grassroots at the Gateway

Clarence Lang

• Paperback | Engels | Class: Culture
• "This is a theoretically sophisticated and thoroughly documented historical case study of the movements for African American liberation in St. Louis. ... Lees meer

Workin' on the Chain Gang

Walter Mosley

• Paperback | Engels | Class: Culture
• A passionate examination of the social and economic injustices that continue to shackle the American people Praise for Workin' on the Chain Gang: ". .... Lees meer

Sit-Down

Sidney Fine

• Paperback | Engels | Class: Culture
• In this classic study, Sidney Fine portrays the dramatic events of the 1936-37 Flint Sit-down Strike against General Motors, which catapulted the UAW ... Lees meer

Let Me Live

Angelo Herndon

• Paperback | Engels | Class: Culture
• Let Me Live tells the remarkable story of Angelo Herndon, a coal miner who worked as a labor organizer in Alabama and Georgia in the 1930s. Herndon le... Lees meer

Dirty Work

Ann Mattis

• Hardcover | Engels | Class: Culture
• Dirty Work sheds light on the complex relationships between women employers and their household help in the early twentieth century through their repr... Lees meer

American Socialist Triptych

Mark Van Wienen

• Paperback | Engels | Class: Culture
• American Socialist Triptych: The Literary-Political Work of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Upton Sinclair, and W. E. B. Du Bois explores the contributions ... Lees meer

You Work Tomorrow

• Paperback | Engels | Class: Culture
• "An outstanding piece of scholarship and a welcome contribution to the field, this collection of neglected but powerful poetry speaks to our own time ... Lees meer

Middle Class Union

Mark W Robbins

• Hardcover | Engels | Class: Culture
• Middle Class Union argues that the period following World War I was a pivotal moment in the development of middle-class consumer politics in the 20th ... Lees meer

Dialectical Imaginaries

• Paperback | Engels | Class: Culture
• Dialectical Imaginaries brings together essays that analyze the effects of class conflict and capitalist ideology on contemporary works of U.S. Latino... Lees meer

Commerce in Color

James C. Davis

• Hardcover | Class: Culture
• Examines consumer culture and race in the United States from 1893-1933 as they were manifested in advertising, literary texts, mass culture, and the p... Lees meer

Moisture of the Earth

• Hardcover | Engels | Class: Culture
• In Moisture of the Earth , Mary Robinson recounts her journey from picking cotton in rural Alabama to becoming an outspoken community leader and labor... Lees meer

Strike for the Common Good

• Hardcover | Engels | Class: Culture
• In February 2018, 35,000 public school educators and staff walked off the job in West Virginia. More than 100,000 teachers in other states--both right... Lees meer

You Work Tomorrow

• Hardcover | Class: Culture
• An anthology of American labor poetry of the Great Depression. This work provides a glimpse into the remarkable but largely forgotten poems published ... Lees meer

Transcribing Class and Gender

Carole Srole

• Paperback | Engels | Class: Culture
• "Drawing upon census data, trade periodicals devoted to stenography and court reporting, the writings of educational reformers, and fiction, Srole all... Lees meer

Natural Acts

Pamela Fox

• Paperback | Engels | Class: Culture
• "'All I gotta do is act naturally, ' Buck Owens sang, and Pamela Fox knows where the acting comes in. From early hillbilly acts to alt.country, Natura... Lees meer

Living Labor

Joseph B Entin

• Hardcover | Engels | Class: Culture
• For much of the twentieth century, the iconic figure of the U.S. working class was a white, male industrial worker. But in the contemporary age of cap... Lees meer

Strike for the Common Good

• Paperback | Engels | Class: Culture
• In February 2018, 35,000 public school educators and staff walked off the job in West Virginia. More than 100,000 teachers in other states--both right... Lees meer