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: Paperback
Number of pages: 408
ISBN-13: 9780252067105
Subjects: American history; Social groups & communities; Work & labour; Sociology - General; Labor & Industrial Relations - General; History; United States - General; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Politics/International Relations; USA; Labor movement; History / United States / 20th Century; Congresses; United States; Working class; History & Theory - General; Labor
First sentence: THE SOCIAL IDENTITY of mid-nineteenth-century Northerners centered on the belief that their region was uniquely friendly to "free labor."