Philip S Foner - Böcker

The legend of IWW activist and songwriter Joe Hill, brought to life through his letters, songs and writings. Radical songwriter and organiser Joe Hill was murdered by the capitalist state in 1915, but his songs continue to inspire working-class ac...

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Writings on educational theory, pedagogy, and the relationship between education and popular democracy.

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Using documents drawn from newspapers, magazines, and books, this volume provides a documentary history of the relationships between labor and abolitionists from the early 1830s to the Civil War. It includes newspaper articles from mainstream dail...

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Against a pre-Civil War backdrop of violence and antagonism, three courageous women, in different parts of the country, undertook to teach black children. Prudence Crandall, Margaret Douglass, and Myrtilla Miner lived, respectively, in Connecticut...

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"This translation of an American labor study by a 19th-century German Marxist, Friedrich A. Sorge (1828-1906), is valuable as a commentary by someone of Karl Marx's generation on the formation of a major labor movement in the US during the 18...

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Our Own Time provides the first full account of the movement to shorten the working day in the United States. Combining the narrative and trade union emphasis of traditional labor history with the focus on culture and the labor process characteris...

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Using documents drawn from newspapers, magazines, and books, this volume provides a documentary history of the relationships between labor and abolitionists from the early 1830s to the Civil War. It includes newspaper articles from mainstream dail...

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Drawing from a broad range of articles, speeches, short stories, pamphlets, sermons, debates, laws, public statements, Supreme Court decisions and conventions, this documentary history demonstrates the persistence of a humanist, if not an anti-rac...

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The original four volumes of the collected works of Frederick Douglass included a substantial number of his writings and speeches but far from all of them. At the time the first volumes of Douglass' writings and speeches were published (1950-1955)...

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In 1947, at the time of completing Volume I of the History of the Labor Movement in the United States, Foner reflected on the role of a Marxist historian of labor. Foner summed up the role this way: to present an "historical view which will enligh...

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"Foner, probably America's most prolific and perceptive writer on Afro-American history, has produced a biting, massive, sometimes even encyclopedic, narrative of black life and culture after 1820. . . . Foner concludes that oppression was [t...

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.,."the overall quality of the book is such that it is a major contribution not only to Black history but also to American history. In fact, Foner's greatest contribution is in his integrity and sensitivity concerning the subject. He has, in ...

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?An important work of scholarship that provides the scholarly community with the "basic" documents of the several Democratic-Republican societies. Previously this primary source material was to be found only in the special collections of...

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?Foner's study is exceedingly important. Those who teach the history of the American Revolution will find it a fresh and challenging monograph for their students to read; those who study the Revolution will find it a useful reference point from wh...

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?We are very much in debt to Foner and the Chamberlins for making Sorge's historical work available.?-Labor Studies Journal

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?This is the only book-length study of the relationship between black Americans and socialism. Contrary to existing scholarship, which views the relationship as minimal because of the racism of party members, Foner asserts that significant forces ...

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Our Own Time retells the story of American labor by focusing on the politics of time and the movements for a shorter working day. It argues that the length of the working day has been the central issue for the American labor movement during its mo...

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This is history as it should be written: massive research and thorough documentation producing a story that tells itself. Recommended for academic history, labor, and Latin American studies collections. Choice Foner's book is primarily valuab...

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One of the greatest African American leaders and one of the most brilliant minds of his time, Frederick Douglass spoke and wrote with unsurpassed eloquence on almost all the major issues confronting the American people during his lifefrom the abol...

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Here are Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale, Eldridge Cleaver, David Hilliard and Fred Hampton, along with Kathleen Cleaver and other Panther women. They tell of the party's court battles and acquittals; its positions on black separatism, the pow...

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In this classic account, historian Philip Foner traces the radical history of Black workers' contribution to the American labour movement.

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One of the greatest African American leaders and one of the most brilliant minds of his time, Frederick Douglass spoke and wrote with unsurpassed eloquence on almost all the major issues confronting the American people during his life-from the abo...

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