Given the lack of a single source, looks like somebody should put together an anthology of the best pieces of the most current stuff. Methinks there would be a market for it.
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 4:36 PM, Rudy Fichtenbaum<[email protected]> wrote: > It is pretty old, but up to about 1960 Labor's Untold Story by Boyer and > Morris is a good book. It is still available from UE. > > > Rudy > > Paul Zarembka wrote: >> >> 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 >> >> ---------------- >> 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]> >> Message-ID: <[email protected]> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed >> >> >> "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. >> > > >> >> ===== >> (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 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> pen-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > > -- > Rudy Fichtenbaum > Professor of Economics > Chief Negotiator AAUP-WSU > Wright State University > Dayton, OH 45435-0001 > 937-775-3085 > > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
