David Montgomery Reader

David Montgomery (1927–2011) was the Farnam Professor of History at Yale University. His books include The Fall of the House of Labor: The Workplace, the State, and American Labor Activism, 1865–1925. Shelton Stromquist is an emeritus professor of history at the University of Iowa. He is the author of Claiming the City: A Global History of Workers’ Fight for Municipal Socialism. James R. Barrett is an emeritus professor of history at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of History from the Bottom Up and the Inside Out: Ethnicity, Race, and Identity in Working-Class History.

“In this invaluable sample of nearly forty years of working-class social history, A David Montgomery Readerreminds us of the special gifts--the confidence of purpose, analytical range, and sheer breadth of knowledge--regularly exhibited by this master craftsman at work.”--Leon Fink, Undoing the Liberal World Order: Progressive Ideals and Political Realities Since World War II

• Acknowledgments Biographical Sketch Introduction Part I. Writing the People’s History The Great Northern Strike of 1894: When Gene Debs Beat Jim Hill Part II. Working-Class Formation The Working Classes of the Pre-Industrial American City, 1780-1830 Social Attitudes of American Workers in the 1840s The Shuttle and the Cross: Weavers and Artisans in the Kensington Riots of 1844 Wage Labor, Bondage, and Citizenship in Nineteenth-Century America Part III. Mutualism and Contention: Strikes, Immigrants, and Working-Class Consciousness in the Nineteenth Century Strikes in Nineteenth-Century America Labor and the Republic in Industrial America, 1860-1920 Racism, Immigrants, and Political Reform Part IV. Toward a History of Workers’ Control Trade Union Practice and the Origins of Syndicalist Theory in the United States Workers’ Control of Machine Production in the Nineteenth Century The “New Unionism” and the Transformation of Workers’ Consciousness in America, 1909-22 Part V. After The FallThinking about American Workers in the 1920s Labor and the Political Leadership of New Deal America Working People’s Response to Past Depressions Part VI. The Move to Global and Comparative Study Empire, Race, and Working-Class Mobilizations Workers’ Movements in the United States Confront Imperialism: The Progressive Era Experience Part VII. Political Interventions What’s Happening to the American Worker? Foreword to On Strike for RespectYesterday’s Wisdom: Changing Situations and New Initiatives in the American Labor Movement Challenges Facing Historians of the Working Class A David Montgomery Bibliography Index