Class Unknown

Mark Pittenger

• Paperback | Engels | Culture, Labor, History | nr. 4
• How well-meaning intellectuals helped develop our understanding of the American underclass Since the Gilded Age, social scientists, middle-class refor... Lees meer

Making the Empire Work

• Hardcover | Engels | Culture, Labor, History | nr. 13
• Millions of laborers, from the Philippines to the Caribbean, performed the work of the United States empire. Forging a global economy connecting the t... Lees meer

Suspect Freedoms

Nancy Raquel Mirabal

• Paperback | Engels | Culture, Labor, History | nr. 3
• Beginning in the early nineteenth century, Cubans migrated to New York City to organize and protest against Spanish colonial rule. While revolutionary... Lees meer

Suspect Freedoms

Nancy Raquel Mirabal

• Hardcover | Engels | Culture, Labor, History | nr. 3
• Beginning in the early nineteenth century, Cubans migrated to New York City to organize and protest against Spanish colonial rule. While revolutionary... Lees meer

Reframing Randolph

Andrew E Kersten, Clarence Lang

• Hardcover | Engels | Culture, Labor, History | nr. 12
• At one time, Asa Philip Randolph (1889-1979) was a household name. As president of the all-black Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (BSCP), he was an... Lees meer

Fueling the Gilded Age

Andrew B Arnold

• Hardcover | Engels | Culture, Labor, History | nr. 2
• If the railroads won the Gilded Age, the coal industry lost it. Railroads epitomized modern management, high technology, and vast economies of scale. ... Lees meer

Trotskyists on Trial

Donna T Haverty-Stacke

• Hardcover | Engels | Culture, Labor, History | nr. 1
• Passed in June 1940, the Smith Act was a peacetime anti-sedition law that marked a dramatic shift in the legal definition of free speech protection in... Lees meer

Class Unknown

Mark Pittenger

• Hardcover | Engels | Culture, Labor, History | nr. 4
• Since the Gilded Age, social scientists, middle-class reformers, and writers have left the comforts of their offices to "pass" as steel workers, coal ... Lees meer

Working the Diaspora

Frederick C Knight

• Paperback | Engels | Culture, Labor, History | nr. 8
• From the sixteenth to early-nineteenth century, four times more Africans than Europeans crossed the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas. While this forced ... Lees meer

Steel Barrio

Michael Innis-Jiménez

• Paperback | Engels | Culture, Labor, History | nr. 10
• Since the early twentieth century, thousands of Mexican Americans have lived, worked, and formed communities in Chicago's steel mill neighborhoods. Dr... Lees meer

A Great Conspiracy Against Our Race

Peter G Vellon

• Paperback | Engels | Culture, Labor, History | nr. 5
• In A Great Conspiracy against Our Race, Peter Vellon explores how Italian immigrants, a once undesirable and "swarthy" race, assimilated into dominant... Lees meer

Whose Harlem Is This, Anyway?

Shannon King

• Paperback | Engels | Culture, Labor, History | nr. 7
• 2015 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Winner of the Anna Julia Cooper/CLR James Award for Outstanding Book in Africana Studies presented by the Natio... Lees meer

Working the Diaspora

Frederick C Knight

• Hardcover | Engels | Culture, Labor, History | nr. 8
• From the sixteenth to early-nineteenth century, four times more Africans than Europeans crossed the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas. While this forced ... Lees meer

Making the Empire Work

• Paperback | Engels | Culture, Labor, History | nr. 13
• Millions of laborers, from the Philippines to the Caribbean, performed the work of the United States empire. Forging a global economy connecting the t... Lees meer

Brokering Servitude

Andrew Urban

• Hardcover | Engels | Culture, Labor, History | nr. 6
• The history of domestic labor markets in 19th century America From the era of Irish Famine migration to the passage of quota restrictions in the 1920s... Lees meer

A Great Conspiracy Against Our Race

Peter G Vellon

• Hardcover | Engels | Culture, Labor, History | nr. 5
• In A Great Conspiracy against Our Race, Peter Vellon explores how Italian immigrants, a once undesirable and "swarthy" race, assimilated into dominant... Lees meer

Forging a Laboring Race

Paul R D Lawrie

• Paperback | Engels | Culture, Labor, History | nr. 11
• Foregrounds the working black body as both a category of analysis and lived experience "How does it feel to be a problem?" asked W.E.B. DuBois in The ... Lees meer

Forging a Laboring Race

Paul R D Lawrie

• Hardcover | Engels | Culture, Labor, History | nr. 11
• Foregrounds the working black body as both a category of analysis and lived experience "How does it feel to be a problem?" asked W.E.B. DuBois in The ... Lees meer

Health in the City

Tanya Hart

• Hardcover | Engels | Culture, Labor, History | nr. 9
• Shortly after the dawn of the twentieth century, the New York City Department of Health decided to address what it perceived as the racial nature of h... Lees meer

Steel Barrio

Michael Innis-Jiménez

• Hardcover | Engels | Culture, Labor, History | nr. 10
• Since the early twentieth century, thousands of Mexican Americans have lived, worked, and formed communities in Chicago's steel mill neighborhoods. Dr... Lees meer

Whose Harlem Is This, Anyway?

Shannon King

• Hardcover | Engels | Culture, Labor, History | nr. 7
• 2015 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Winner of the Anna Julia Cooper/CLR James Award for Outstanding Book in Africana Studies presented by the Natio... Lees meer