A Social History of the Laboring Classes
From Colonial Times to the Present
1st Edition
Published on 4. January 1999
Book
Paperback/Softback
260 pages
978-0-631-20770-2 (ISBN)
Description
In this concise historical narrative, Jacqueline Jones provides a sweeping account of the most significant aspect of nearly every American's life.
Reviews / Votes
"Jacqueline Jones is one of the nation's finest historians of race, class and culture and any project she turns her hand to is must reading for all those who claim to participate in the intellectual life of our times." Nelson Lichtenstein, University of Virginia"The explosion of scholarship in the field of labor history over the past twenty years has defied synthesis - until now. Jacqueline Jones has moved the diverse experiences of America's multicultural working class to the front and center of the national historical narrative. No other book so effectively brings the voices and struggles of working people together as does A Social History of the Laboring Classes." Alex Lichtenstein, Florida International University
" Recent research in labor and working-class history that is staggering in scope. Recommended for all levels of college reader." D. Lindstrom, University of Wisconsin, Madison
"A lively text grounded solidly in the latest research." Labour History Review
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Hoboken
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
336 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-631-20770-2 (9780631207702)
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01/1999
Blackwell Publishers
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Person
Jacqueline Jones is Truman Professor of American Civilization at Brandeis University. She is the author of American Work (1998), The Dispossessed (1993), Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow (1986), winner of the Bancroft Prize in American History.
Content
Introduction. 1. 'Strangers' and Other Workers in the Seventeenth-Century Colonies.
2. 'Be Sure to Come Free': Workers in the Eighteenth Century.
3. Crosscurrents of Slavery and Freedom in the Antebellum South.
4. The Northern Laboring Classes at Odds With One Another, Before and During the Civil War.
5. Ideologies of Race in a Modernizing Economy: The Cases of African-American and Chinese Workers.
6. The Laboring Chattering Classes in Turn-of-the-Century America.
7. The Rise of the State in Depression and War: The American Workforce, 1916-1945.
8. American Workers and the New World Order in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century.
Index.
2. 'Be Sure to Come Free': Workers in the Eighteenth Century.
3. Crosscurrents of Slavery and Freedom in the Antebellum South.
4. The Northern Laboring Classes at Odds With One Another, Before and During the Civil War.
5. Ideologies of Race in a Modernizing Economy: The Cases of African-American and Chinese Workers.
6. The Laboring Chattering Classes in Turn-of-the-Century America.
7. The Rise of the State in Depression and War: The American Workforce, 1916-1945.
8. American Workers and the New World Order in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century.
Index.