Title: Power & culture : essays on the American working class /
Authors: Gutman, Herbert George, 1928-; Berlin, Ira, 1941-
Publisher: Pantheon Books,
Year: 1987
Subjects: Working class United States History; African Americans History; Slavery United States History
Contents: Introduction: Herbert G. Gutman and the American working class -- The workers' search for power : labor in the Gilded Age -- Joseph P. McDonnell and the workers' struggle in Paterson, New Jersey -- Labor in the land of Lincoln : coal miners on the prairie -- The labor policies of the large corporation in the Gilded Age : the case of the Standard Oil Company -- A note on immigration history, "breakdown models," and the rewriting of the history of immigrant working-class peoples -- Schools for freedom : the post-emancipation origins of Afro-American education -- Enslaved Afro-Americans and the "Protestant" work ethic -- Labor history and the "Sartre question" -- Interview with Herbert Gutman -- The black family in slavery and freedom : a revised perspective -- Class composition and the development of the American working class, 1840-1890 -- Historical consciousness in contemporary America.