Work, Recreation, and Culture (eBook, PDF)

Essays in American Labor History
Redaktion: Blatt, Martin H.; Norkunas, Martha K.

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Produktbeschreibung

The essays in this volume focus on the role of women in the work force. They explore how organized sports, social associations of all kinds and the educational system faced by the children of worker were profoundly linked to work place and community activism. They examine why radical labor organizations that could win major strikes often could not sustain themselves as permanent institutions. Finally, the essays argue that simultaneous leadership changes in management and labor in the auto industry were less the result of internal conflicts than needed structural adjustments to changing economic and political realities. Interwoven into all of the essays is the intricate dynamic between immigrant and native-born, between different immigrant waves and the groups, and between workers at different skill levels. Work,Recreation, and Culture enriches and expands the established labor narratives.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136514975
• Artikelnr.: 38273820

Autorenporträt

Martin Blatt received his Ph.D. in American Studies from Boston University. He is the author of Free Love anAnarchism: The Biography of Ezra Heywood and the co-editor of The Meaning of Slavery in the North. Currently he is the Chief of Cultural Resources/Historian at Boston National Historical Park. MarthaNorkunas received her Ph.D. in Folklore from Indiana University. Her book, The Politics of Public Memory, received the 1994 Historic Preservation Book Award. She served as Cultural Affairs Director for the Lowell Historic Preservation Commission from 1989-1994. Currently she is Oral and Public Historian at the Center for American History at the University of Texas at Austin.

Inhaltsangabe

NATIONAL BOARD OF EDITORIAL ADVISORS FOR WORK
RECREATION AND CULTURESERIES EDITOR'S PREFACEIndroductionMar tin Blatt and Martha NorkunasWOMEN'S WORKSuccess and the Travelers Insurance Woman
1920-1950
Tracey M. WilsonBehind the Scenes in the Big Store: Reassessing Women's Employment in American Department Stores
1870-1920
Sarah S. MalinoThe World Our Mothers Made: Southern Italian and Eastern European Immigrants in Industrial Connecticut
1890-1940
Laura AnkerWORKER'S CULTURESport
Domestic Strength
and National Security
Monys Hagen Social Lodges and Fraternal Associations and the Maintenance of Urban Community
Milton CantorEducation and the Nineteenth-Century Working Class
Milton CantorWORKER'S ORGANIZATIONForeign Pioneers: Immigrants and the Mechanized Factory System in Antebellum New England
David A. Zonderman A Larger Battle: Lawrence and the 1912 New England Mill Strikes
Dexter ArnoldImmigrant Workers and Labor Organization
1912-1926: Lawrence
Massachusetts and Passaic
New Jersey
David J. GoldbergWe Exploit Tools
Not Men: The Speed-Up and Militance at General Motors
1930-1941
Doug ReynoldsINDEX