Florida's working-class past
Subtitle: current perspectives on labor, race, and gender from Spanish Florida to the new immigration
By: edited by Robert Cassanello and Melanie Shell-Weiss ; foreword by Richard Greenwald.
Contributors: Cassanello, Robert.; Shell-Weiss, Melanie.
Series: Working in the Americas
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Gainesville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9780813032832
Subjects: Labor -- Florida -- History
Description: Viewed from the perspective of the Florida peninsula, the essays in this collection explore the history of labor in the United States and Caribbean, highlighting the ways this view provides new insights into shifting race and ethnic relations, gender roles, class definitions, and human migration from the Spanish colonial period through the present day. Florida provides a unique window onto the transformation of American labor over the past four centuries, underscoring the international and national developments that have shaped, and been shaped by, the lives of working men and women. Book jacket.