Title: The unmaking of the American working class /
Authors: Theriault, Reg, 1924-2014
Publisher: New Press : Distributed by W.W. Norton,
Year: 2003
Subjects: Working class United States; Working class United States Attitudes; Blue collar workers United States.; Work ethic United States; Labor United States
Abstract: Portrays the American blue-collar culture as decreasing, citing administrations in the second half of the twentieth century that have eliminated large portions of the working class and how this has compromised the nation.
Contents: On the waterfront -- How to steal sheep -- The union makes us strong -- Cargo -- Timber! -- Through the looking glass -- Tip that drum, tote that bale -- The depression -- Working women -- Race and class -- The violent man -- Gabfest -- The making of a rust belt -- Semiskilled need not apply -- Living history -- The road -- Have hook, will travel -- The white male worker's dissent -- Labor law and the worker -- Blue in America -- Caught in the bight -- The ghosts in the factory.