Labor Histories
Subtitle: Class, Politics, and the Working-Class Experience (Working Class in American History)
Contributors: Eric Arnesen (Editor); Julie Greene (Editor); Bruce Laurie (Editor)
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: June 1, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 382
ISBN-13: 9780252024078
Subjects: American history; Social groups & communities; Work & labour; History Of Labor; Labor Unions; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Sociology; USA; Labor & Industrial Relations - General; Sociology - General; United States - General; History / United States / 20th Century; History & Theory - General; Congresses; History; Labor; Labor movement; United States; Working class
First sentence: THE SOCIAL IDENTITY of mid-nineteenth-century Northerners centered on the belief that their region was uniquely friendly to "free labor."