American labor and immigration history, 1877-1920s :
recent European research /
edited by Dirk Hoerder.
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Urbana :
University of Illinois Press,
©1983.
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| Series: | Working class in American history.
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| Notes: | Papers prepared for a conference at the University of Bremen, Nov. 1978. Includes index. Physical description: ix, 286 pages ; 24 cm. more |
| ISBN: | 0252009630 9780252009631 |
Table of Contents:
Introduction: American labor history in the United States and Europe / Dirk Hoerder
Workers, scholars, militancy: Strikes and economics, working-class insurgency and the birth of labor historiography in the 1880s / Bruno Cartosio. W.E.B. Du Bois and the proletariat in Black reconstruction / Ferruccio Gambino. Workers' self-organization and resistance in the 1877 strikes / Marianne Debouzy. "Reefs of roast beef," the American worker's standard of living in comparative perspective / Peter R. Shergold
Organization: The Socialist and the working class in New York, 1890-96 / Hubert Perrier. The parameters of craft consciousness, the social outlook of the skilled worker, 1890-1920 / Andrew Dawson. The German immigrant working class of Chicago, 1875-90 / Hartmut Keil. Yugoslav immigrants in the U.S. labor movement, 1880-1920 / Ivan Čizmić
Immigrants: Unestablished Irishmen, new immigrants and industrial America, 1870-1910 / David N. Doyle. Strikes and political radicalism in Sweden and emigration to the United States / Lars-Göran Tedebrand. Political mobilization of the workers, the case of the Worcester Swedes / Sune Åkerman and Hans Norman. For or against Americanization? The case of the Finnish immigrant radicals / Auvo Kostiainen.
Introduction: American labor history in the United States and Europe / Dirk Hoerder
Workers, scholars, militancy: Strikes and economics, working-class insurgency and the birth of labor historiography in the 1880s / Bruno Cartosio. W.E.B. Du Bois and the proletariat in Black reconstruction / Ferruccio Gambino. Workers' self-organization and resistance in the 1877 strikes / Marianne Debouzy. "Reefs of roast beef," the American worker's standard of living in comparative perspective / Peter R. Shergold
Organization: The Socialist and the working class in New York, 1890-96 / Hubert Perrier. The parameters of craft consciousness, the social outlook of the skilled worker, 1890-1920 / Andrew Dawson. The German immigrant working class of Chicago, 1875-90 / Hartmut Keil. Yugoslav immigrants in the U.S. labor movement, 1880-1920 / Ivan Čizmić
Immigrants: Unestablished Irishmen, new immigrants and industrial America, 1870-1910 / David N. Doyle. Strikes and political radicalism in Sweden and emigration to the United States / Lars-Göran Tedebrand. Political mobilization of the workers, the case of the Worcester Swedes / Sune Åkerman and Hans Norman. For or against Americanization? The case of the Finnish immigrant radicals / Auvo Kostiainen.