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 ...
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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
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Very good. Ex-library. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 261 p. Working Class in American History. LCCN 93029986 Type of material Book Personal name Fink, Leon, 1948-Main title In search of the working class: essays in American labor history and political culture / Leon Fink. Published/Created Urbana: University of Illinois Press, c1994. Description xiv, 261 p.; 23 cm. ISBN 0252020774 0252063686 (paper) LC classification HD8066. F544 1994 Subjects Labor--United States--History. Labor movement--United States--History. Working class--United States--History. Labor unions--Political activity--United States--History. Industrial relations--United States--History. Notes Includes bibliographical references and index. Series The Working class in American history Dewey class no. 305.5/62/0973 Geographic area code n-us---
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