Rank and File: Personal Histories by Working-Class Organizers

by Alice Lynd (Editor), Staughton Lynd (Editor)

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"The strength of this book . . . encompasses a broad view of history from the bottom up and deals not only with biographical background of the nonelite in labor but with insights into black, immigrant, and grassroots working-class history as well."--ChoiceOriginally published in 1981.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions show more preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905. show less

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Staughton Lynd received a BA from Harvard, an MA and PhD from Columbia and a JD from the University of Chicago. He taught American history at Spelman College in Atlanta, where one of his students was the future Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Alice Walker, and at Yale University. Staughton served as director of Freedom Schools in the Mississippi show more Summer Project of 1964. He has written or editor numerous books, including Rank and File: Personal Histories by Working-Class Organizer, ed. Alice and Staughton Lynd, expanded ed (Haymarket Books, 2011). show less

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