Workers of All Colors Unite

Lorenzo Costaguta

• Hardcover | Engels | Working Class in American History
• As the United States transformed into an industrial superpower, American socialists faced the vexing question of how to approach race. Lorenzo Costagu... Lees meer

Toward a Cooperative Commonwealth

Thomas Alter

• Paperback | Engels | Working Class in American History
• Agrarian radicalism's challenge to capitalism played a central role in working-class ideology while making third parties and protest movements a poten... Lees meer

Disruption in Detroit

Daniel J Clark

• Paperback | Engels | Working Class in American History
• It is a bedrock American belief: the 1950s were a golden age of prosperity for autoworkers. Flush with high wages and enjoying the benefits of generou... Lees meer

Death to Fascism

John P Enyeart

• Paperback | Engels | Working Class in American History
• Born to Slovenian peasants, Louis Adamic commanded crowds, met with FDR and Truman, and built a prolific career as an author and journalist. Behind th... Lees meer

Fraying Fabric

James C Benton

• Paperback | Engels | Working Class in American History
• The decline of the U.S. textile and apparel industries between the 1940s and 1970s helped lay the groundwork for the twenty-first century's potent eco... Lees meer

Child Care in Black and White

Jessie B Ramey

• Hardcover | Engels | Working Class in American History
• This innovative study examines the development of institutional childcare from 1878 to 1929, based on a comparison of two "sister" orphanages in Pitts... Lees meer

On the Waves of Empire

William D Riddell

• Hardcover | Engels | Working Class in American History
• In the aftermath of the Spanish-American War, the United States' acquisition of an overseas empire compelled the nation to reconsider the boundary bet... Lees meer

The Bosses' Union

Vilja Hulden

• Hardcover | Engels | Working Class in American History
• At the opening of the twentieth century, labor strife repeatedly racked the nation. Union organization and collective bargaining briefly looked like a... Lees meer

Immigrants Against the State

Kenyon Zimmer

• Paperback | Engels | Working Class in American History
• From the 1880s through the 1940s, tens of thousands of first- and second-generation immigrants embraced the anarchist cause after arriving on American... Lees meer

The Way We Build

Mark Erlich

• Paperback | Engels | Working Class in American History
• The construction trades once provided unionized craftsmen a route to the middle class and a sense of pride and dignity often denied other blue-collar ... Lees meer

Purple Power

• Paperback | Engels | Working Class in American History
• Chartered in 1921, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) is a worldwide organization that represents more than two million workers in occup... Lees meer

Labor's Mind

Tobias Higbie

• Paperback | Engels | Working Class in American History
• Business leaders, conservative ideologues, and even some radicals of the early twentieth century dismissed working people's intellect as stunted, twis... Lees meer

Upon the Altar of Work

Betsy Wood

• Paperback | Engels | Working Class in American History
• Rooted in the crisis over slavery, disagreements about child labor broke down along sectional lines between the North and South. For decades after ema... Lees meer

Working in the Magic City

Thomas A Castillo

• Paperback | Engels | Working Class in American History
• In the early twentieth century, Miami cultivated an image of itself as a destination for leisure and sunshine free from labor strife. Thomas A. Castil... Lees meer

Workers of All Colors Unite

Lorenzo Costaguta

• Paperback | Engels | Working Class in American History
• As the United States transformed into an industrial superpower, American socialists faced the vexing question of how to approach race. Lorenzo Costagu... Lees meer

Remembering Lattimer

Paul a Shackel

• Paperback | Engels | Working Class in American History
• On September 10, 1897, a group of 400 striking coal miners--workers of Polish, Slovak, and Lithuanian descent or origin--marched on Lattimer, Pennsylv... Lees meer

Purple Power

• Hardcover | Engels | Working Class in American History
• Chartered in 1921, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) is a worldwide organization that represents more than two million workers in occup... Lees meer

Strong Winds and Widow Makers

Steven C Beda

• Hardcover | Engels | Working Class in American History
• Winner of the 2022 Philip Taft Labor History Book Prize Often cast as villains in the Northwest's environmental battles, timber workers in fact have a... Lees meer

Labor's Outcasts

Andrew J Hazelton

• Paperback | Engels | Working Class in American History
• In the mid-twentieth century, corporations consolidated control over agriculture on the backs of Mexican migrant laborers through a guestworker system... Lees meer

The Making of Working-Class Religion

Matthew Pehl

• Paperback | Engels | Working Class in American History
• Religion has played a protean role in the lives of America's workers. In this innovative volume, Matthew Pehl focuses on Detroit to examine the religi... Lees meer

The Way We Build

Mark Erlich

• Hardcover | Engels | Working Class in American History
• The construction trades once provided unionized craftsmen a route to the middle class and a sense of pride and dignity often denied other blue-collar ... Lees meer

The Haymarket Conspiracy

Timothy Messer-Kruse

• Hardcover | Engels | Working Class in American History
• The Haymarket Conspiracy: Transatlantic Anarchist Networks traces the evolution of revolutionary anarchist ideas in Europe and their migration to the ... Lees meer

Banded Together

Jeremy Brecher

• Hardcover | Engels | Working Class in American History
• Providing incisive commentary on the historical and contemporary American working class experience, Banded Together: Economic Democratization in the B... Lees meer

Harry Bridges

Robert W Cherny

• Hardcover | Engels | Working Class in American History
• Winner of a Silver Medal from the Independent Publisher Book Awards Won Honorable Mention for 2023 ILHA Book of the Year (International Labor History ... Lees meer