IN SEARCH OF WORKING CLASS: ESSAYS IN AMERICAN LABOR HISTORY AND POLITICAL CULTURE

by Leon Fink

Overview

These nine essays by a prominent scholar in American labor history self-consciously evoke the tensions between the worker as historical subject and the historian as outside observer. Encompassing studies of labor culture, strategy, and movement building from the late nineteenth century to the present, In Search of the Working Class also connects the trials of the early labor economists to the conceptual challenges facing today's academic practitioners.
"Fink places American labor history in the broader context of American political historiography better than any other historian I can think of." — James R. Barrett, author of Work and Community in the Jungle: Chicago's Packinghouse Workers, 1894-1922
 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780252063688
Publisher:	University of Illinois Press
Publication date:	05/01/1994
Series:	Working Class in American History
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	280
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.90(d)