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Working-Class America: Essays on Labor, Community, and American Society (1983)

by Michael Frisch (Editor), Daniel J. Walkowitz (Editor)

Other authors: Susan Porter Benson (Contributor), Francis Couvares, G. (Contributor), Leon Fink (Contributor), Elizabeth Fones-Wolf (Contributor), Ken Fones-Wolf (Contributor)6 more, Steve Fraser (Contributor), Joshua Benjamin Freeman (Contributor), Nelson Lichtenstein (Contributor), Jonathan Prude (Contributor), Christine Stansell (Contributor), Sean Wilentz (Contributor)

Series: The Working Class in American History (1983)

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Working-Class America represents the new labor history par excellence. Its ten original essays, by some of the best young scholars in the field, are at the frontier of current research and demonstrate the ability of working-class historians to produce exciting new insights into the nature of American society.   Working-Class America, however, offers more than scholarly historical-sociological analyses. In these pages, the lives of real men and women emerge from behind the veil of statistical abstraction. It is precisely that human dimension which makes this collection so valuable as a digest for scholars and yet so accessible as a text for students.  … (more)
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Frisch, MichaelEditorprimary authorall editionsconfirmed
Walkowitz, Daniel J.Editormain authorall editionsconfirmed
Benson, Susan PorterContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Couvares, Francis, G.Contributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Fink, LeonContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Fones-Wolf, ElizabethContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Fones-Wolf, KenContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Fraser, SteveContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Freeman, Joshua BenjaminContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Lichtenstein, NelsonContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Prude, JonathanContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Stansell, ChristineContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Wilentz, SeanContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
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Working-Class America represents the new labor history par excellence. Its ten original essays, by some of the best young scholars in the field, are at the frontier of current research and demonstrate the ability of working-class historians to produce exciting new insights into the nature of American society.   Working-Class America, however, offers more than scholarly historical-sociological analyses. In these pages, the lives of real men and women emerge from behind the veil of statistical abstraction. It is precisely that human dimension which makes this collection so valuable as a digest for scholars and yet so accessible as a text for students.  

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