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Sit-Down
The General Motors Strike of 1936-1937
Av Sidney Fine
Häftad, 2020
521 kr
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In this classic study, Sidney Fine portrays the dramatic events of the 1936–37 Flint Sit-down Strike against General Motors, which catapulted the UAW into prominence and touched off a wave of sit-down strikes across the United States. Basing his account on an impressive variety of manuscript …
Vanishing Moments
Class and American Literature
Häftad, 2006
565 kr
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Vanishing Moments analyzes how various American authors have reified class through their writing, from the first influx of industrialism in the 1850s to the end of the Great Depression in the early 1940s. Eric Schocket uses this history to document America’s long engagement with the problem of …
Let Me Live
Häftad, 2007
409 kr
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Let Me Live tells the remarkable story of Angelo Herndon, a coal miner who worked as a labor organizer in Alabama and Georgia in the 1930s. Herndon led a racially integrated march of the unemployed in 1932 and was subsequently arrested when Communist Party literature was found in his bedroom. His …
You Work Tomorrow
An Anthology of American Labor Poetry, 1929-41
Av John Marsh
Häftad, 2007
391 kr
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"An outstanding piece of scholarship and a welcome contribution to the field, this collection of neglected but powerful poetry speaks to our own time as much as it does to its own era."---Nicholas Coles, University of Pittsburgh "Opens up a dramatic new aspect of American literature for study, …
Transcribing Class and Gender
Masculinity and Femininity in Nineteenth-Century Courts and Offices
Av Carole Srole
Häftad, 2012
475 kr
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"Drawing upon census data, trade periodicals devoted to stenography and court reporting, the writings of educational reformers, and fiction, Srole allows us to better understand the roles that gender and work played in the formation of middle-class identity. Clearly written and thoroughly …
Grassroots at the Gateway
Class Politics and Black Freedom Struggle in St. Louis, 1936-75
Häftad, 2009
412 kr
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"This is a theoretically sophisticated and thoroughly documented historical case study of the movements for African American liberation in St. Louis. Through detailed analysis of black working class mobilization from the depression years to the advent of Black Power, award-winning historian …
Natural Acts
Gender, Race, and Rusticity in Country Music
Av Pamela Fox
Häftad, 2009
381 kr
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Whether found in country barn dances, the plaintive twang of Hank Williams, the glitzy glamour of Dolly Parton, or the country-pop sound of Faith Hill, country music has always maintained an allegiance to its own authenticity. Its specific sounds and images have changed over the past century, but …
Michael Moore
Filmmaker, Newsmaker, Cultural Icon
Häftad, 2010
409 kr
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For more than twenty years, Michael Moore has transformed himself from a marginal filmmaker into a cultural icon, unofficial spokesperson for liberals and the Left. American conservatives constantly use him for target practice and target. Book author, film director, television personality, and Web …
Hog Butchers, Beggars, and Busboys
Poverty, Labor, and the Making of Modern American Poetry
Av John Marsh
Häftad, 2011
530 kr
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"Impressive—Marsh successfully rewrites the founding moment of American Modernist poetry." ---Mark Van Wienen, Northern Illinois University"Cogently argued, instructive, and sensitive, Marsh’s revisionist reading opens new insights that will elicit lively comment and critical response." ---Douglas …
Wire
Race, Class, and Genre
Av Liam Kennedy, Stephen Shapiro
Häftad, 2012
399 kr
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Few other television series have received as much academic, media, and fan celebration as The Wire, which has been called the best dramatic series ever created. The show depicts the conflict between Baltimore's police and criminals to raise a warning about race; drug war policing; …
Black America in the Shadow of the Sixties
Notes on the Civil Rights Movement, Neoliberalism, and Politics
Häftad, 2015
303 kr
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The 1960s, including the black social movements of the period, are an obstacle to understanding the current conditions of African Americans, argues Clarence Lang. While Americans celebrate the current anniversaries of various black freedom milestones and the election of the first black president, …
Poverty Law Canon
Exploring the Major Cases
Av Ezra Rosser, Marie Failinger
Häftad, 2016
506 kr
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The Poverty Law Canon takes readers into the lives of the clients and lawyers who brought critical poverty law cases in the United States. These cases involved attempts to establish the right to basic necessities, as well as efforts to ensure dignified treatment of welfare recipients and to halt …
Half-Life of Deindustrialization
Working-Class Writing about Economic Restructuring
Häftad, 2018
333 kr
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Starting in the late 1970s, tens of thousands of American industrial workers lost jobs in factories and mines. Deindustrialization had dramatic effects on those workers and their communities, but its longterm effects continue to ripple through working-class culture. Economic restructuring changed …
Dialectical Imaginaries
Materialist Approaches to U.S. Latino/a Literature in the Age of Neoliberalism
Av Marcial Gonzalez, Carlos Gallego
Häftad, 2018
617 kr
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Dialectical Imaginaries brings together essays that analyze the effects of class conflict and capitalist ideology on contemporary works of U.S. Latino/a literature. The editors argue that recent global events have compelled contemporary scholars to reexamine traditional interpretive models that …
Of Vagabonds and Fellow Travelers
African Diaspora Literary Culture and the Cultural Cold War
Häftad, 2019
373 kr
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Of Vagabonds and Fellow Travelers recovers the history of the writers, artists, and intellectuals of the African diaspora who, witnessing a transition to an American-dominated capitalist world-system during the Cold War, offered searing critiques of burgeoning U.S. hegemony. Cedric R. Tolliver …
Strike for the Common Good
Fighting for the Future of Public Education
Av Rebecca Kolins Givan, Amy Schrager Lang
Häftad, 2020
298 kr
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In February 2018, 35,000 public school educators and staff walked off the job in West Virginia. More than 100,000 teachers in other states—both right-to-work states, like West Virginia, and those with a unionized workforce—followed them over the next year. From Arizona, Kentucky, and Oklahoma to …
Living Labor
Fiction, Film, and Precarious Work
Häftad, 2023
512 kr
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For much of the twentieth century, the iconic figure of the U.S. working class was a white, male industrial worker. But in the contemporary age of capitalist globalization new stories about work and workers are emerging to refashion this image. Living Labor examines these narratives and, in the …
Commerce in Color
Race, Consumer Culture, and American Literature, 1893-1933
Häftad, 2007
443 kr
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Commerce in Color explores the juncture of consumer culture and race by examining advertising, literary texts, mass culture, and public events in the United States from 1893 to 1933. James C. Davis takes up a remarkable range of subjects—including the crucial role publishers Boni and Liveright …
Poverty Law Canon
Exploring the Major Cases
Av Ezra Rosser, Marie Failinger
Inbunden, 2016
1340 kr
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The Poverty Law Canon takes readers into the lives of the clients and lawyers who brought critical poverty law cases in the United States. These cases involved attempts to establish the right to basic necessities, as well as efforts to ensure dignified treatment of welfare recipients and to halt …
Half-Life of Deindustrialization
Working-Class Writing about Economic Restructuring
Inbunden, 2018
1166 kr
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Starting in the late 1970s, tens of thousands of American industrial workers lost jobs in factories and mines. Deindustrialization had dramatic effects on those workers and their communities, but its longterm effects continue to ripple through working-class culture. Economic restructuring changed …
Of Vagabonds and Fellow Travelers
African Diaspora Literary Culture and the Cultural Cold War
Inbunden, 2019
1301 kr
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Of Vagabonds and Fellow Travelers recovers the history of the writers, artists, and intellectuals of the African diaspora who, witnessing a transition to an American-dominated capitalist world-system during the Cold War, offered searing critiques of burgeoning U.S. hegemony. Cedric R. Tolliver …
Strike for the Common Good
Fighting for the Future of Public Education
Av Rebecca Kolins Givan, Amy Schrager Lang
Inbunden, 2020
911 kr
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In February 2018, 35,000 public school educators and staff walked off the job in West Virginia. More than 100,000 teachers in other states—both right-to-work states, like West Virginia, and those with a unionized workforce—followed them over the next year. From Arizona, Kentucky, and Oklahoma to …
Living Labor
Fiction, Film, and Precarious Work
Inbunden, 2023
1222 kr
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For much of the twentieth century, the iconic figure of the U.S. working class was a white, male industrial worker. But in the contemporary age of capitalist globalization new stories about work and workers are emerging to refashion this image. Living Labor examines these narratives and, in the …
Dirty Work
Domestic Service in Progressive-Era Women’s Fiction
Av Ann Mattis
Inbunden, 2019
1301 kr
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Dirty Work sheds light on the complex relationships between women employers and their household help in the early twentieth century through their representations in literature, including women’s magazines, conduct manuals, and particularly female-authored fiction. Domestic service brought together …
Clothed in Meaning
Literature, Labor, and Cotton in Nineteenth-Century America
Inbunden, 2020
1301 kr
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The rise of both the empire of cotton and the empire of fashion in the nineteenth century brought new opportunities for sartorial self-expression to millions of ordinary people who could now afford to dress in style and assert their physical presence. Millions of laborers toiling in cotton fields …
Syntax of Class
Writing Inequality in Nineteenth-Century America
Häftad, 2006
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373 kr
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Lacking a native language for expressing class differences, American writers in the wake of the European revolutions of 1848 struggled to find social taxonomies able to capture—and manage—increasingly apparent inequalities of wealth and power. As new social types emerged, and with them, new …
American Socialist Triptych
The Literary-Political Work of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Upton Sinclair, and W. E. B. Du Bois
Häftad, 2014
530 kr
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"A meticulously researched, highly informed, carefully argued, and very accessible account of American socialism, socialists, and socialistic thinking, from the late nineteenth century through the 1960s . . . challenges the intellectual and political legacy of Werner Sombart's Why Is There No …
Dividing Lines
Class Anxiety and Postbellum Black Fiction
Häftad, 2016
443 kr
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One of the most extensive studies of class in nineteenth-century African American literature to date, Dividing Lines unveils how black fiction writers represented the uneasy relationship between class differences, racial solidarity, and the quest for civil rights in black communities. By portraying …
Chicano Novels and the Politics of Form
Race, Class, and Reification
Häftad, 2008
495 kr
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The field of Mexican American fiction has exploded since the 1990s, yet there has been relatively little critical assessment of this burgeoning area in American literature. Chicano Novels and the Politics of Form is a provocative and timely study of literary form that focuses on the fiction of four …
Angle of Vision
Women Writers on Their Poor and Working-Class Roots
Häftad, 2009
373 kr
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An Angle of Vision is a compelling anthology that collects personal essays and memoir by a diverse group of gifted authors united by their poor or working-class roots in America. The contributors include Dorothy Allison, Joy Castro, Lisa D. Chavez, Mary Childers, Sandra Cisneros, Judith Ortiz …
