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Working-Class America: Essays on Labor, Community, and American Society

The Journal of American History, 1983
At the time of its original publication, Working-Class America represented the new labor history par excellence. A roster of noteworthy scholars in the field contribute original essays written during a pivotal time in the nation's history and within the discipline.
James R. Barrett, Michael H. Frisch, Daniel J. Walkowitz   +2 more
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Labor Day and the American Working Class

2020
The first Labor Day parade was held on September 5, 1882, in New York City. It, and the annual holiday demonstrations that followed in that decade and the next, resulted from the growth of the modern organized labor movement that took place in the context of the second industrial revolution.
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Class/Work: Labor, Theatricality, and the Student

Contemporary Theatre Review, 2015
Before leaving for a picket at a workplace that is not my own, I think about what to wear. I’m a graduate student; I dress in a manner not particularly practical for anything other than sitting at ...
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Teaching Work: Academic Labor and Social Class

2012
In his latest book Richard Ohmann continues a thirty-year project of historicizing the social placement of academic labor within the changing scenes of a capitalist economy. The essays collected in The Politics of Knowledge demonstrate, for example, that the shifting fortunes of academic labor have since the late nineteenth century been closely tied to,
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China’s digital working class and circuits of labor

Communication and the Public, 2018
This article proposes that the emergence of a digital working class is among the most important digital formations in contemporary China. From the information have-less to network labor, the class formation process is not only massive in scale but of special historical significance that constitutes a fourth phase in the making of the Chinese working ...
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Learning to Labor: How Working Class Kids Get Working Class Jobs.

Contemporary Sociology, 1996
John Hagan, Paul Willis
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American Labor and Working-Class History, 1900–1945

2016
Early 20th century American labor and working-class history is a subfield of American social history that focuses attention on the complex lives of working people in a rapidly changing global political and economic system. Once focused closely on institutional dynamics in the workplace and electoral politics, labor history has expanded and refined its ...
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Encyclopedia of US Labor and Working-Class History

2006
A RUSA 2007 Outstanding Reference Title The Encyclopedia of US Labor and Working-Class History provides sweeping coverage of US labor history. Containing over 650 entries, the Encyclopedia encompasses labor history from the colonial era to the present.
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Labor Histories: Class, Politics, and the Working Class

Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2000
Walter T. Howard, Eric Arnesen, Julie Greene, Bruce Laurie   +3 more
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Work Work Work: Labor, Alienation, and Class Struggle, written by Yates, Michael D.

Journal of Labor and Society, 2023
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