Michael,
Thanks for replying. I have an old edition of the book when Dulles was
the only author (my edition is 1966). It seemed to me to have an
anti-communist subtext, seemed to use "the public" against worker
strikes, and seemed concerned about the 'ethics' of sit-down strikes,
etc. In other words, the book seemed pretty 'establishment' or
'mainstream'.
Do you find this to be still the case? or is the late, modern edition
worth looking into? Anyone else with an opinion?
Paul
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Date: 5 Aug 2009 15:47:10 -0400
From: "Michael Nuwer" <[email protected]>
Subject: [Pen-l] Re: textbook for History of the American Labor
Movement?
To: "Progressive Economics" <[email protected]>
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"Labor in America: a history by" Melvyn Dubofsky and Foster Rhea Dulles
is a one of the better standard texts. As such, it's approach is labor
organization as response to industrialism. Table of contents is here:
http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip045/2003013265.html
If you want something that takes the so called new labor history
approach, Bruce Laurie, "Artisans into Workers: Labor in
Nineteenth-Century America" is good. But it doesn't cover the CIO.
Michael Nuwer
Paul Zarembka wrote:
> > Does anyone have a good suggestion for a textbook on American labor
> > history? I have been using, partly, Paul Le Blanc "A Short History of
> > the U.S. Working Class" but it really is too short.
> >
> > Paul Z.
> >
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(V23) THE HIDDEN HISTORY OF 9-11, Seven Stories Press softcover, 2008 2nd ed
(V24) TRANSITIONS IN LATIN AMERICA .... (V25) WHY CAPITALISM SURVIVES CRISES
====> Research in Political Economy, Emerald Group, Bingley, UK
====> Paul Zarembka, Editor www.buffalo.edu/~zarembka
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