False promises
Subtitle: the shaping of American working class consciousness.
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Published: 1973
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 465
ISBN-13: 9780070023154
Subjects: Working class -- United States -- History; Labor unions -- United States -- History; Class consciousness -- United States -- History
Description: Traces the historical development of the working class with particular emphasis on modern changes in working class consciousness that have given rise to widespread discontent with the role and life of the worker in America.
Notes: Bibliography: p. [443]-445.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Part one : New developments in working class life and labor.; title: Lordstown : disruption on the assembly line; title: Colonized leisure, trivialized work; title: Part two : The formation of the American working class.; title: Formation of the industrial working class; title: Trade unionism : illusion and reality; title: The formation of the professional servant class; title: The white-collar proletarians; title: The unsilent Fifties; title: Part three : A break with the past.; title: The new workers