Preface xi
Introduction 1 Julie Greene, Bruce Laurie, and Eric Arnesen
Part 1: Politics and the State
1. Land and Freedom: The New York Anti-Rent Wars and the
Construction of Free Labor in the Antebellum North 19 Reeve
Huston
2. The "Fair Field" of the "Middle Ground": Abolitionism, Labor
Reform, and the Making of an Antislavery Bloc in Antebellum
Masschusetts 45 Bruce Laurie
3. Dinner-Pail Politics: Employers, Workers, and Partisan Culture
in the Progressive Era 71 Julie Greene
4. Class Wars: Frank Walsh, the Reformers, and the Crisis of
Progressivism 97 Shelton Stromquist
5. The Workers' State: Municipal Policy, Class, and Taxes in the
Early Depression 125 Cecelia F. Bucki
Part 2: Class and Culture
6. "Work That Body": African-American Women, Work, and Leisure in
Atlanta and the New South 153 Tera W. Hunter
7. Mobilizing Community: Migrant Workers and the Politics of Labor
Mobility in the North American West, 1900-1920 175 Gunther Peck
8. Popular Narrative and Working-Class Identity: Alexander Irvine's
Early Twentieth-Century Literary Adventures 201 Kathryn J.
Oberdeck
9. Making a Church Home: African-American Migrants, Religion, and
Working-Class Activism 230 Kimberley L. Phillips
Part 3: Labor Activism and Workers' Organizations
10. "To Sit among Men": Skill, Gender, and raft Unionism in the
Early American Federation of Labor 259 Ileen A. DeVault
11. Charting an Independent Course: African-American Railroad
Workers in the World War 1 Era 284 Eric Arnesen
12. Boring from Within and Without: William Z. Foster, the Trade
Union Educational League, and American Communism in the 1920s 209
James R. Barrett
13. The Dynamics of "Americanization": The Croatian Fraternal Union
between the Wars, 1920s-30s 340 Peter Rachleff
Contributors 363
Index 367
Eric Arnesen is the James R. Hoffa Teamsters Professor of Modern American Labor History and Vice Dean for Faculty and Administration at George Washington University's Columbian College of Arts and Sciences. He is the author of Waterfront Workers of New Orleans: Race, Class, and Politics, 1863-1923. Julie Greene is a professor of history at the University of Maryland, College Park and the the author of The Canal Builders: Making America's Empire at the Panama Canal. Bruce Laurie is a professor emeritus in the Department of History at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and author of Rebels in Paradise: Sketches of Northampton Abolitionists.
"The best anthology of labor's past to be published in many
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Francisco Building Trades and Union Power in the Progressive
Era
"David Montgomery has been the most important labor historian of
our times. . . . In this superb collection, thirteen of his
students repay their mentor with a set of sparkling essays that not
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upon which the study of labor history in the United States now
turns."--Nelson Lichtenstein, author of Walter Reuther: The
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