Free Labor: The Civil War and the Making of an American Working Class (Working Class in American History) - Tapa blanda

Libro 26 de 65: Working Class in American History

Lause, Mark A.

 
9780252080869: Free Labor: The Civil War and the Making of an American Working Class (Working Class in American History)
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ISBN 10: 0252080866 ISBN 13: 9780252080869
Editorial: University of Illinois Press, 2015

Sinopsis

Monumental and revelatory, Free Labor explores labor activism throughout the country during a period of incredible diversity and fluidity: the American Civil War.

Mark A. Lause describes how the working class radicalized during the war as a response to economic crisis, the political opportunity created by the election of Abraham Lincoln, and the ideology of free labor and abolition. His account moves from battlefield and picket line to the negotiating table, as he discusses how leaders and the rank-and-file alike adapted tactics and modes of operation to specific circumstances. His close attention to women and African Americans, meanwhile, dismantles notions of the working class as synonymous with whiteness and maleness.

In addition, Lause offers a nuanced consideration of race's role in the politics of national labor organizations, in segregated industries in the border North and South, and in black resistance in the secessionist South, creatively reading self-emancipation as the largest general strike in U.S. history.

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Acerca del autor

Mark A. Lause is a professor of American history at the University of Cincinnati. He is the author of A Secret Society History of the Civil War and Race and Radicalism in the Union Army.

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Editorial
University of Illinois Press
Año de publicación
2015
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0252080866
ISBN 13 
9780252080869
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
296
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9780252039331: Free Labor: The Civil War and the Making of an American Working Class (Working Class in American History)

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ISBN 10:  0252039335 ISBN 13:  9780252039331
Editorial: University of Illinois Press, 2015
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